I Am the Clay Mass market paperbound - 1993
by Chaim Potok
This stunning departure for the beloved author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev is a powerful story of love and war in Korea. An old peasant farmer and his wife are fleeing the Chinese during the Korean War when they come across a wounded boy who, they believe, has magical powers.
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"Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand....Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEAs the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend....
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- Title I Am the Clay
- Author Chaim Potok
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Fawcett Books, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-12-04
- ISBN 9780449221389 / 0449221385
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 6.87 x 4.2 x 0.71 in (17.45 x 10.67 x 1.80 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects War stories, Korean War, 1950-1953
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 12/06/1993, Page 0
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