Night
May 2012 · Penguin UK
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Night, Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the Holocaust, is a devastating exploration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope.
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust.
Translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel
'A slim volume of terrifying power' The New York Times
'To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record' Alfred Kazin
'Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art' Curt Leviant, Saturday Review
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust.
Translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel
'A slim volume of terrifying power' The New York Times
'To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record' Alfred Kazin
'Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art' Curt Leviant, Saturday Review
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4.7
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Michelle Howe
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July 6, 2014
We must never forget or forgive what the Germans did to poor incident children and people. This book brings home the suffering and hope that helped survive atrocities enflicted on them.
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Jennifer Tucker
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February 26, 2020
Poignant superbly written harrowing and so incredibly moving. The atrocities of genocide, committed by the Nazis must never be forgotten. Lord above this may never happen again .
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Salomon Ocampo
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October 26, 2014
Reading this book was amazing. I recommend everyone to read it. You will appreciate life even more than you do now.
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About the author
Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.
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