Night

Wiesel, Elie

ISBN 10: 1883332508 ISBN 13: 9781883332501

Publisher: Audio Bookshelf, 2001

Synopsis

The statements of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provide a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.

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Review:

In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.

From the Publisher:

Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.

"To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record." -- Alfred Kazin

"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art." -- Curt Leviant, Saturday Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Audio Bookshelf
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1883332508
• ISBN 13: 9781883332501
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 4