Davita's Harp - Hardcover

Potok, Chaim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394542908 ISBN 13: 9780394542904

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985

Synopsis

The daughter of a nonbelieving Jewish mother and a nonbelieving gentile father--dedicated Communists both--Davita Chandal, growing up as the world suffers through the Spanish Civil War and World War II, turns to Judaism for consolation and spiritual sustenance

About this title

From the Publisher:

Davita's Harp is a terrific read by Chiam Potok. He captures the mood, tensions and conflicts in the lives of the Jewish community in this country during the terrible times of McCarthyism and paranoia. As a Jewish child who was raised during that period, I found this to be a touching affirmation of all that we felt. Ruth RossArt Director, Ballantine Books

From the Inside Flap:

For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394542908
• ISBN 13: 9780394542904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 371