by Chaim Potok · Ballantine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780449245699
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«The Book of Lights» is the novel by Chaim Potok, published by Ballantine in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Gershon Loran, a rabbinical student, is disturbed by the reality around him and finds solace in the study of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mysticism of visions, truth and light. For his friend Arthur, light means something else: the atomic bomb his father helped create. Both seek refuge in a foreign place hoping for the same thing.
The novel originally appeared in 1981 and this paperback edition was published in 1982; it is usually classified as literary fiction and Jewish narrative.
For readers interested in literary fiction, spirituality and Jewish traditions.
Chaim Potok, was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Among the more than a dozen books he authored, his first novel The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3.4 million copies as of 2002, and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
