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Oprah's Book Club #55: Night

by Elie Wiesel

Oprah's Book Club #55: Night Cover

ISBN13: 9780374399979
ISBN10: 0374399972
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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night is Elie Wiesels masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elies wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the authors original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets mans capacity for inhumanity to man.

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

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About the Author

Elie Wiesel, the author of some forty books, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University.  Mr. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
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angel_baby_skater, October 12, 2006 (view all comments by angel_baby_skater)
this book had a part of oening my eyes to what the real world was like and what people have gone through. innocent people were murdered and had gone through things they shouldnt have gone through.....what happend in this book was something that needed to be said and you said it very well.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374399979
Author:
Wiesel, Elie
Publisher:
Hill & Wang
Translator:
Wiesel, Marion
Author:
Wiesel, Marion
Author:
Unknown
Subject:
World war, 1939-1945
Subject:
Jews
Subject:
Holocaust
Subject:
Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)
Subject:
Historical - Holocaust
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
General Biography
Subject:
Wiesel, Elie - Childhood and youth
Subject:
Jews - Romania - Sighet
Copyright:
2006
Edition Number:
Revised Edition
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Series:
Oprah's Book Club
Series Volume:
55
Publication Date:
January 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
144
Dimensions:
8.44x6.28x.65 in. .60 lbs.
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