The Time of the Uprooted

Wiesel, Elie

ISBN 10: 1400041724 / ISBN 13: 9781400041725

Published by Knopf, 2005

About this Item

Hardcover with DJ. Half-bound burnt orange paper-covered boards and black paper-covered spine, with gilt lettering on the spine. Deckled fore edge.Light blue photographic DJ of a suitcase, with black lettering on the front cover and light blue lettering on the spine. Signed by the author, Elie Wiesel, on the title page. Title and copyright pages are dated 2005. Second printing; October 2005. 299 pages plus the last page. Interiors are clean and free of marks. A very good copy.

Seller Inventory # 19-1676

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time of the Uprooted
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400041724
• ISBN 13: 9781400041725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

From Elie Wiesel, a profoundly moving novel about the healing power of compassion.

Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel’s parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka. With his Jewish identity hidden, he survives the war, but in 1956, to escape the stranglehold of communism, he leaves Budapest after painfully parting with Ilonka.

He settles in Vienna, then Paris, and finally, after a failed marriage, in New York, where he works as a ghostwriter, living through the lives of others. Eventually, he falls in with a group of exiles: a Spanish Civil War veteran, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, a victim of Stalinism, a former Israeli intelligence agent, and a rabbi—a mystic whose belief in the potential for grace in everyday life powerfully counters Gamaliel’s feelings of loss and dispossession. When Gamaliel is asked to help draw out an elderly, disfigured Hungarian woman who is barely able to communicate but who may be his beloved Ilonka, he begins to understand that a real life in the present is possible only if he will reconcile with his past.

Aching, unsentimental, deeply affecting, and thought-provoking, The Time of the Uprooted is the work of a master.

About the Author

Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty books, including his unforgettable international best sellers Night and A Beggar in Jerusalem, winner of the Prix Médicis. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, and the French Legion of Honor with the rank of Grand Cross. In 1986, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.