--- product_id: 19912355 title: "Davita's Harp: A Novel" brand: "chaim potok" price: "€ 32.07" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/19912355-davitas-harp-a-novel store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Davita's Harp: A Novel **Brand:** chaim potok **Price:** € 32.07 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Davita's Harp: A Novel by chaim potok - **How much does it cost?** € 32.07 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/19912355-davitas-harp-a-novel) ## Best For - chaim potok enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted chaim potok brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Davita's Harp: A Novel ## Images ![Davita's Harp: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hgruMQ7zL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Where do you turn? *by M***F on Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2006* This is a fabulous novel. The story is a bit long to summarize and I would refer you to the other reviews on this page. I wanted to add a brief thought or two. Davita's parents are of mixed heretage: her mother an orthodox jew from Poland and father a Mayflower decendent. Both have experienced deep personal trauma that has affected their lives and how they decide to deal with the problems of the world around them. Davita's mother survived genoside and rape in a pogrom and her father witnessed a murder during a logging strike in Washington State. Both abandon their backgrounds and look to socialism as the answer to their personal hurts and the world's injustices. Stragely, Davita as a young girl embraces her orthodox background and finds dep solice in it after her father is killed covering the Spanish revolution. She doggedly and unconventionally says Kaddish daily for her father.Davita's faith ultimately saves her mother as the latter becomes isolated and dissolutioned with the socialism of Stalin. Davita becomes a star student at the Yesheva where she enrolls (and meets Reuben Malter the protagonist of the CHosen and The Promise). Davita seeks from orthodoxy what the men are granted and is denied equal standing both intellectually and religiously. She has blossomed so much that she outgrows the confines of the tradition she loves.The novel ends with Davita on the margins, entering her teens and facing an important decision of what path this pios and brilliant loving child will take.We are left wondering about Davita's future that is taken up in a later novel "Old Men at Midnight" where she appears in three stories at different times in her adult life as a foil against which three other main characters are developed. We learn later that she embrasses acadamia.Upton Sinclair ends his famous novel "The Jungle" (written in the early 1900's) with a cry that socialism is the answer. We see in Davita's harp what Sinclair will ultimately descover for himself decades later that socialism is a dead end and barren as far as meeting basic human spiritual needs.Potok's powerful novels and his fictional Brooklyn society are the conflicts between the old world traditions and a rapidly changing America. He is a master story teller, writes beautiful prose, writes with sufficient patience and depth that the cultural material is understandable and accessable to all who read his works. His themes are timeless and universal. One day he will be looked upon as an underappreciated great American novelist. Don't miss a single piece of his writing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Davita's Harp--beautiful *by W***5 on Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2012* A beautiful story about a jewish girl coming of age, and finding herself. However, a lot of reviews say they would recommend it to high school girls...i'm fence line on that. Do not get me wrong, there is nothing obscene or inappropriate. How do I put this...As a Jewish woman, I am constantly looking for books with Jewish characters that I can relate to. I know growing up, i was so thrilled to find this type of book that i could relate to, and i would for sure allow my daughters to read it (of course my eldest is 5, so we will have to wait)...HOWEVER, as a therapist i work with many young people. The vast majority of them would not be able to handle this book. The maturity and level of understanding just isn't there yet and they may find the story to be long and boring...which is such a shame!!! Most of the teens i work with are on the level of twilight...I look back to my teenage years. As a jew, i would have been intrigued...as a teenager, i would have been lost. I think although the main character (davita) is a young girl...this is more a college level book. Or maybe something high schoolers can read as a class and discuss. I'm just saying parents, before you rush out and buy this for your teenager, read it yourself and you be the judge of if they will comprehend it. I did give this book a 4 though, because I did think it was a deep book. Great for book clubs. I thought Potok had a lot of insight and left me thinking. Some say this is not their favorite book by Potok...this is the only book i've read by him, but because of this book I ordered 3 more by him. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Every 13yo girl should read this book. *by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2021* I’m 40 and I’m crying my eyes out because everything Chaim Potok writes is so, so tender. This book isn’t perfect but the gentleness and INTELLIGENCE of the protagonist just before and during puberty, among war and fascism and parents fighting for righteousness while maybe kinda neglecting her.. but she chases beauty.. it’s just beautiful. 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