# The Chosen

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- Book: [The Chosen](https://www.bookquiver.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen) ([The Chosen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen.md))
- Authors: [Chaim Potok](https://www.bookquiver.com/chaim-potok)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-077-6
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2009-11-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.