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Night by Elie Wiesel

Night

by Elie Wiesel
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  • First Published:
  • Jan 16, 2006, 144 pages
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  • Jan 2006, 144 pages
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An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, watching family and friends die, and how they led him to believe that God is dead.

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 Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forget man’s capacity for inhumanity to man.

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Oprah Winfrey
I gain courage from his courage

The New York Times
A slim volume of terrifying power

About.com - Erin Collazo Miller
I am disturbed by the fact that Wiesel never returns to hope or faith. He raises big questions about humanity and suffering, but the book never points toward a meaningful answer. I want redemption, or at least some hint of light. But Wiesel did not experience light, and Night will not let the reader pretend the Holocaust was anything other than what it was.

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

Author Blurb Alfred Kazin
No one has left behind him so moving a record.

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