But What of Earth?

6 best books like But What of Earth? (Piers Anthony): The Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev, Darkness at Noon, I Am the Clay, The Promise, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

The Chosen

Author	Chaim Potok
ISBN	0449213447

Danny Saunders en Reuven Malter groeien in de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw op in een gemeenschap van chassidische joden in New York. Danny is orthodox opgevoed en voorbestemd zijn vader op te volgen als rabbijn. Het milieu waarin zijn vriend Reuven opgroeit, is veel moderner. Steeds meer wordt Danny...

My Name Is Asher Lev

Author	Chaim Potok
ISBN	1400031044

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel,...

Darkness at Noon

Author	Arthur Koestler
ISBN	0553265954

Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government...

I Am the Clay

Author	Chaim Potok
ISBN	0449001121

As 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...

The Promise

Author	Chaim Potok
ISBN	1400095417

“A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With...

He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

Author	John Birmingham
ISBN	1875989218

I once lived with a man who covered the entire wall of our shared (four people) bathroom with hard-core Dutch pornography. I asked him to take it down and he claimed it couldn’t be removed as it was ‘Art’. We had a yelling match that went for thirty minutes.

If you’ve ever shared a home with...