Potok's previous novels, such as The Chosen, The Promise, In the Beginning, and My Name Is Asher Lev, all feature Jewish protagonists and are clearly derived from the tradition of the male bildungsroman , which treats the maturation of the male from adolescence to young manhood. Davita's Harp represents Potok's first experiment with a female point of view and the novel of female growth and development. Read in the context of his earlier.....
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