 First edition cover | |
| Author | Chaim Potok |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Paul Bacon[1] |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 400 |
| ISBN | 978-0-4492-4569-9 |
| Preceded by | Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews |
| Followed by | Davita's Harp |
The Book of Lights is a 1981 novel by Chaim Potok about a young rabbi and student of Kabbalah whose service as a United States military chaplain in Korea and Japan after the Korean War challenges his thinking about the meaning of faith in a world of "light" from many sources.