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Books : Night (Oprah's Book Club) |
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Amazon.com's Price: $9.00 Prices subject to change.
Availability: unknown
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
EAN: 9780374500016
ISBN: 0374500010
Label: Hill and Wang
Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 120
Publication Date: January 16, 2006
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Sales Rank: 203
Studio: Hill and Wang
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Product Description:
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 Weisel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in the substantive new preface, Elie Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man 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.
Amazon.com Review:
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Incredibly moving
This astonishing and very moving book is based on Elie Wiesel's youth in concentration camps during WW2. It begins with his childhood in Hungary, then his family's incarceration in a Jewish ghetto, then to Auschwitz (where he last sees his mother and sister) and later to Buchenwald. "Night" is made all the more haunting and powerful by the way that it is written so simply, in a matter of fact tone. Wiesel displays absolutely no self-pity as he describes the way that the Nazis wore them down and stripped ... Read More
Rating: - Night by Elie Wiesel
Night by Elie Wiesel
Did you ever stop to think about what happened in World War II? Why so many people lost their lives? Why families were separated? Why these camps were put up to demolish races? Elie Wiesel wrote Night for us to remember that this tragedy shouldn't happen again. He explains his life and the disasters of World War II.the horror of Nazi /fascist death camps and memories of evil are summarized in Night.
Elie Wiesel writes about himself as a little ... Read More
Rating: - That none should ever forget
Profound, haunting, and quite simply one of the best-written, most heart-wrenching books I have ever had the honor of reading. This book should be added to every high-school curriculum so that no child goes forward in life not understanding the profoundness of evil of which human beings are capable. Wiesel delves into your soul with this dark, engaging, necessary autobiography.
Rating: - A book that every generation should read
One of the main circumstances that made the Holocaust possible and still fuels the doubters that question whether it happened is that it is so unbelievable. The idea that a modern nation would develop the policy to simply exterminate an entire race of people was inconceivable before it happened. When the Jews of Wiesel's hometown of Sighet were told that the Nazis were killing all Jews, they reacted with disbelief. This was not just simply denial; there were many logical reasons to believe that it was just ... Read More
Rating: - Night
This was an amazing book. Anyone wanting to study WW2 and or just the Holocaust, this is the book to read. I rate it right up there with the Diary of Anne Frank. It is an amazing story that pulls you so you can't put it down!
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