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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.

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"A slim volume of terrifying power." 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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"The book that always makes me weep is 'Night' by Elie Wiesel, because it brings up emotions of sorrow, horror and anger. And the book that unfailingly cheers me up is also 'Night' by Elie Wiesel, because it shows me that there is never an excuse for not trying to overcome evil, and that there is no situation from which we cannot emerge with a determination to be productive." Alan M. Dershowitz, Washington Post Book World

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

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"As a human document, 'Night' is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism." A. Alvarez, Commentary

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"The seminal story of a child the Germans intended to murder, more to the point than the partial narrative of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' since it describes the place of Anne Frank's doom." Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review
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lmjinwa, January 1, 2012 (view all comments by lmjinwa)
Although today in the 21st century we are bombarded daily with examples of man's inhumanity to man, and some people become jaded and numb about violence, bigotry, and avarice, we can't forget that true victory over these deadly squelchers of mankind is achieved by the very struggle to desperately, stubbornly, retain our individual humanity by refusing to remain victims, and by refusing to victimize in return. Wiesel's powerful chronicle of his imprisonment in Auschwitz , the Nazis' relentless, sadistic attempts to strip the personhood from millions of humans, and his own struggles to remain human while in Hell, is sad, informative, scary, but ultimately uplifting and, considering man's slow learning curve (genocides, greed, bigotry still abound globally), quite timely and thought-provoking.
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Mariah Jensen, September 20, 2010 (view all comments by Mariah Jensen)
Every year since about 6th or 7th grade, my teachers made me read a book on the Holocast. I hated them for that, I hated reading about the Holocaust. It was morbid, barbaric, terrifying, and tragic. To this day I still detest reading about the Holocaust, but my 10th grade teacher had us read Night, and it widened my view a bit more and I wasn't as narrow minded. Though I knew this I realized all the more how much the victims probably hated talking about it, hated reading about it and over all hated experiencing it. Probably one of the best books about the Holocaust I've ever read.
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peterphuhuynh, June 10, 2010 (view all comments by peterphuhuynh)
Imagine your family killed, dying, and taken away from you. Imagine yourself and your whole ethnic group being prosecuted for believing in what you believe. Imagine losing everything you have, your hope, pride, innocence, and maybe even your life. Elie Wiesel didn't have to imagine this because it was reality when his family and him were forced to leave everything behind and go to a concentration camp. This concentration camp was named Auschwitz and then they were moved to Buchenwald. Both there camps treated the Jews very poorly with little rations of food, harsh conditions, hard work and poor health. In this book, Elie Wiesel describes his confrontation with the Nazis, and their sinister behaviors of capturing Jews. Elie Wiesel was a young fourteen year old boy that had not that much knowledge to survive these terrible conditions when his family and him were forced to leave. Night is the amazing but terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his innocence, and his sad as a an observant Jew confronts the absolute evil of man. What Wiesel wants to tell us is his unforgettable message that the horror in the Holocaust must never be allowed to happen again. I would recommend this book to the Middle School and higher level readers. This book describes much horror that is very frightening to me sometimes. This is a must read!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780553272536
Author:
Wiesel, Elie
Publisher:
Bantam Books
Translator:
Rodway, Stella
Foreword:
Mauriac, Francois
Author:
Mauriac, Francois
Location:
Prince Frederick, MD
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
World war, 1939-1945
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Continental european fiction (fictional works
Subject:
Entertainment & Performing Arts
Subject:
Historical - Holocaust
Subject:
Authors, french
Subject:
Jewish authors
Subject:
Holocaust, jewish
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Subject:
Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
Subject:
World War, 19
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
Copyright:
1960
Edition Number:
25
Edition Description:
Anniversary
Series Volume:
546
Publication Date:
March 1982
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
128
Dimensions:
7.08x4.18x.38 in. .15 lbs.
Media Run Time:
034500
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Product details 128 pages RANDOM HOUSE TRADE - English 9780553272536 Reviews:
"Review" by , "A slim volume of terrifying power."
"Review" by , "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?"
"Review" by , "Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art."
"Review" by , "The book that always makes me weep is 'Night' by Elie Wiesel, because it brings up emotions of sorrow, horror and anger. And the book that unfailingly cheers me up is also 'Night' by Elie Wiesel, because it shows me that there is never an excuse for not trying to overcome evil, and that there is no situation from which we cannot emerge with a determination to be productive."
"Review" by , "To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record." Alfred Kazin
"Review" by , "As a human document, 'Night' is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism."
"Review" by , "The seminal story of a child the Germans intended to murder, more to the point than the partial narrative of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' since it describes the place of Anne Frank's doom."
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