The Chosen
Chaim Potok
Audio Cassette
(Books on Tape, Inc., Oct. 23, 1986)
The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself: one is to acquire a teacher, the other is to choose a friend. The Greeks say that two friends are like one soul with two bodies. Set in New York toward the end of WW II, this is the story of two teenage Jewish boys, one the son of a Zionist, the other of a Russian Hassidic. They turn to each other in a fine show of male bonding. "A jewel...profound and universal...to be read and reread." (The Wall Street Journal)