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Night Paperback – Jan. 16 2006
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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.
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHill and Wang
- Publication dateJan. 16 2006
- Dimensions13.97 x 0.98 x 20.98 cm
- ISBN-109780374500016
- ISBN-13978-0374500016
- Lexile measure590L
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“A slim volume of terrifying power.” ―The New York Times
“Required reading for all of humanity.” ―Oprah
“Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art.” ―Curt Leviant, Saturday Review
“To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record.” ―Alfred Kazin
“What makes this book so chilling is not the pretense of what happened but a very real description of every thought, fear and the apathetic attitude demonstrated as a response . . . Night, Wiesel's autobiographical masterpiece, is a heartbreaking memoir. Wiesel has taken his painful memories and channeled them into an amazing document which chronicles his most intense emotions every step along the way.” ―Jose Del Real, Anchorage Daily News
“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 is the author of more than fifty books, including Night, his harrowing account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The book, first published in 1955, was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 2006. Wiesel is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and lives with his family in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
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- ASIN : 0374500010
- Publisher : Hill and Wang; Second Edition, Revised (Jan. 16 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780374500016
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374500016
- Item weight : 136 g
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 0.98 x 20.98 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Holocaust Biographies
- #4 in Jewish Historical Fiction
- #4 in Jewish Biographies
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About the author
ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.
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In western minds the holocaust seems to eclipse the mass murders attributed to Stalin and Mao Zedong (both of whom murdered greater numbers), not to mention the millions who have died due to political mistakes such as the partition of India and the cumulative horrors of nasty little wars in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia and China's annexation of Tibet and Hong Kong and the incarceration in concentration camps of millions of Uyghurs. Perhaps the atrocities inflicted on the Jews and the author of this book occurred closer to home and have received more attention in movies, news media and books?
Elie Wiesel describes how, in spite of repeated warnings, he and his family simply didn't believe that Jews were being rounded up and exterminated. Even when the Gestapo arrived and began lodging nearby, no one believed that the Germans posed a danger; they were initially charming. Elie and his family ignored rumours about the camps. Even when the family was ordered to leave their home, they rejected offers from an old maid to hide them from the Gestapo. They could never have believed what lay ahead.
While witnessing atrocities inflicted by the Germans on an industrial scale, Elie, a deeply religious man, is forced, time and again, to reconcile his faith with what he was experiencing.
Having read this book, I am surprised how ruthless the current Jews are towards the Palestinians and it is perhaps time that the international community woke up to the ethnic cleansing being perpetrated not only in Israel, but in Xinjiang, China; millions of Uyghurs removed from their homes and taken to concentration camps in the same way that the Gestapo removed Elie and his family from their home.
Elie suggests that it is when people ignore what is happening that events like the holocaust occur.
Reviewed in India on June 3, 2021
O livro é simplesmente fantástico. Estava muito ansioso para lê-lo e não me decepcionei. Elie Wiesel conta a sua história como sobrevivente do Holocausto ao mesmo tempo que emprega uma delicadeza na escrita. O tema abordado é obviamente pesado, mas muito importante. Fiquei horrorizado com os relatos de Wiesel e muitas vezes refletia sobre até que ponto os humanos são capazes de chegar. Em suma, é um livro recomendadíssimo para quem deseja ver uma visão mais pessoal a respeito dos horrores do Nazismo, além praticar inglês devido a uma linguagem simples e agradável.
Reviewed in Brazil on August 21, 2018
O livro é simplesmente fantástico. Estava muito ansioso para lê-lo e não me decepcionei. Elie Wiesel conta a sua história como sobrevivente do Holocausto ao mesmo tempo que emprega uma delicadeza na escrita. O tema abordado é obviamente pesado, mas muito importante. Fiquei horrorizado com os relatos de Wiesel e muitas vezes refletia sobre até que ponto os humanos são capazes de chegar. Em suma, é um livro recomendadíssimo para quem deseja ver uma visão mais pessoal a respeito dos horrores do Nazismo, além praticar inglês devido a uma linguagem simples e agradável.