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Night

by Elie Wiesel

Night Cover

ISBN13: 9780374500016
ISBN10: 0374500010
Condition: Standard
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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night is Elie Wiesel’s 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, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s 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 man’s 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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"A slim volume of terrifying power" The New York Times

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"What I maintain is that this personal record, coming after so many others and describing an outrage about which we might imagine we already know all that it is possible to know, is nevertheless different, distinct, unique....Have we ever thought about the consequence of a horror that, though less apparent, less striking than the other outrages, is yet the worst of all to those of us who have faith: the death of God in the soul of a child who suddenly discovers absolute evil?" Francios Mauriac

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

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"As a human document, 'Night' is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism." A. Alvarez, Commentary
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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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hayleyluvsumore, December 12, 2008 (view all comments by hayleyluvsumore)
This book was WOW. It was so sad at parts like when the son and father killed each other just for food. But over all the book was amazing.
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gr82bdnyce, March 24, 2008 (view all comments by gr82bdnyce)
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” It’s wiesel’s first night in the camp and he has already lost hope. Death is surrounding him, he see’s children and babies being burned to death in pits of fire. This is the moment in his life when everything changes his dreams are deterred. There are various events that influenced wiesel’s life and goals. The most significant event that occurred in his life was the holocaust. It changed his life immensely. After going through such a horrific event, Wiesel’s chef life goal became to ensure that such an event is never forgotten.
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book.lover, November 17, 2007 (view all comments by book.lover)
'Night' is a moving book by a Holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel was just a young teenager when he and his family were taken away to concentration camp. His story tells of his struggles to live in such harsh, brutal, horrible conditions, under brash treatment. He was one of the few fortunate ones to survive, and his book has gone on to change the lives of millions.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374500016
Author:
Wiesel, Elie
Publisher:
Hill & Wang
Translator:
Wiesel, Marion
Author:
Unknown
Subject:
Non-Classifiable
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:
Paperback
Series:
Oprah's Book Club
Publication Date:
January 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
120
Dimensions:
8.21x5.53x.37 in. .29 lbs.
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