The Book of Lights - Softcover
With Gershon, a young student, and his friend Arthur, son of a famous nuclear physicist, this novel takes the reader from New York, to the Korean War, to Hiroshima and Jerusalem.
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Born in 1929, Chaim Potok grew up and was educated in New York. After being ordained as a rabbi, he took a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a chaplain with the US Forces in Korea from 1955-1957. He died in 2002.
His novels The Chosen, The Promise, In the Beginning, The Book of Lights, My Name is Asher Lev, The Gift of Asher Lev and I am The Clay, have all been published by Penguin. He is also the author of Wanderings, a history of the Jews; of a children's book, The Tree of Here; and of three plays, Out of the Depths, Sins of the Father and The Play of Lights.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 014006480X
- ISBN 13 9780140064803
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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