Esta serie se sumerge en las profundidades de la vida judía en Estados Unidos, explorando el choque entre valores tradicionales y modernos a través de las vidas de hombres jóvenes. Los lectores siguen sus viajes personales, búsquedas intelectuales y luchas espirituales que los forman en la adultez. Los libros entrelazan magistralmente las tradiciones religiosas con los desafíos del mundo secular, ofreciendo perspectivas perspicaces sobre la fe, la amistad y la búsqueda de identidad. Es una narrativa cautivadora sobre la intersección de diferentes mundos y su influencia mutua.
The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again....
“A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” — The Philadelphia InquirerYoung Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders—who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer — Reuven battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to approach the peace he has long sought…