![]() ![]() ![]() Potok is a master storyteller. Filled with a host of richly drawn characters. Davita’s Harp is set against a background of Christianity as well as Judaism, and it also investigates political issues as Potok deals with what he considers to be the central social problem of. ![]() The reader knows from the first few pages that he is in the hands of a sure professional who won't let him down.” - People “It is an enormous pleasure to sink into such a rich. Inspired by the beloved door harp depicted in Chaim Potoks novel, Davitas Harp, every Door Harp we build is individually hand-made to. Potok's bravest book.” - The New York Times Book Review To her, life's elusive possibilities for happiness, for fulfillment, for decency, become as real and resonant as the music of the small harp that hangs on her door, welcoming all guests with its sweet, gentle tones. And Davita, unexpectedly, finds in the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned both a solace to her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence. But the deprivations of war and the Depression take their ruthless toll. The Book of Lights, and Davitas Harp, Potok wrote very American novels. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope for a new, better world. Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote. For Davita Chandal, growing up in New York in the 1930s and '40s is an experience of indescribable joy-and unfathomable sadness. ![]()
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