The Gates of November

REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY.--The Boston Globe. The father is a high-ranking Communist officer a Jew who survived Stalin''s purges. The son is a refusenik who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now Chaim Potok beloved author of the award-winning novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev unfolds the gripping true story of a father a son and a conflict that spans Soviet history. Drawing on taped interviews and his harrowing visits to Russia Potok traces the public and privates lives of the Slepak family: Their passions and ideologies their struggles to reconcile their identities as Russians and as Jews their willingness to fight--and die--for diametrically opposed political beliefs.. [A] vivid account . . . [Potok] brings a novelist''s passion and eye for detail to a gripping story that possesses many of the elements of fiction--except that it''s all too true.--San Francisco Chronicle