Has anyone read novels by Chiam Potuck? The Chosen, The Promise, or My Name is Asher Lev. Would you all consider these classics??
Has anyone read novels by Chiam Potuck? The Chosen, The Promise, or My Name is Asher Lev. Would you all consider these classics??
Oh, yes. They are wonderful. Definitely modern classics; I thin The Promise is already recognized as one
The Chosen is certainly worthy of classic status
I loved these. Read them about 50 years ago, but they were so good. I tried to get them later but they were not available. I will try Amazon.
Try http://thriftbooks.com/ I just checked and they have a couple of copies available. ?
Rudette Patton thanks Rudette, I got Promise and The Chosen. Asher Lev was a new copy and can’t be shipped to Australia.
I managed to get Asher Lev from Amazon Australia.
I found a whole new area of reading that I knew very little about because of his books. He was a great influence on my teen years.
Chaim Potok is one of my favorite writers. I have read almost all his fiction. My favorites are the Promise, the Chosen, Davita’s Harp and I am the Clay.
@Rudette…Thank you for the thrift books link! I just looked up a very hard to find children’s author and they had tons of his books! I am a happy camper!
Its a great resource!
He is one of my favorite writers. The Chosen is my all time favorite book. I first read it in my teens and thirty years later, I still reread it every few years. I must have read it at least ten times by now.
I always read the chosen and the promise back to back as they are companion books. We did the chosen for our book group many years ago and it was such a great discussion!
For a long time, I didn’t like The Promise much for some reason. Only when I got older did I start to take to it. So I haven’t read it as often as The Promise. Now I love it, but not as much as The Promise. 😉 My old book club did The Chosen as well seven or eight years ago. I was scared beforehand to have my all-time favorite thrashed, but it ended up being the best discussion we ever had.
Myrthe, ha! I felt the same way in my previous book club regarding my all-time favorite book till we have faces by CS Lewis. I put off nominating it for years because I didn’t want it to get thrashed. I finally had someone else nominate it so wouldn’t technically be “my book ”. It’s so hard to hear people say negative things about a book you love.
I ended up finding a hardback of the promise last year and that is fabulous because I only had a paper back with very small font. That is my issue with the chosen… I need a hardback just cannot read that small font anymore. So I have not read the chosen in quite a few years.
I loved the Chosen, read it every couple of years/
I liked The Chosen and The Promise but really loved one called The Book of Lights, which was my first encounter with the ideas of Kabbalah. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Lights-Chaim-Potok/dp/0449245691/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538879889&sr=1-1&keywords=book+of+lights+chaim+potok
Wonderful book!
Yes. I’ve read both, and I would highly recommend both books.
LOVED the chosen! Would absolutely recommend.