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Night (Oprah's Book Club) |  | Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 120
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0374500010
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
EAN: 9780374500016
ASIN: 0374500010
Publication Date: January 16, 2006
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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.
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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.
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 great February 16, 2010
C. Prober
Book was sent quickly and was in great condition. Would do bussiness with this business/person again.
Haunting and powerfully tragic ... February 10, 2010
DACHokie (Blacksburg, VA)
After reading "Night", I realized that it is the first book I've read that was authored by a Holocaust survivor. I was so absorbed by Elie Weisel's tale of absolute misery and despair that it only took me a little over an hour to read the entire book ... and I've found myself thinking about it's contents ever since. It is also the first book I've read that actually made me feel the authors pain.
The books starts with the feeling that Germany's defeat was imminent, Weisel conveys a sense of complacency in that it appeared he and his family would be spared the worse with the Red Army's rapid westward advance to Germany. Even when Germany invades Hungary in the spring of 1944, Weisel and his family appeared content to wait for the Russians. This proved to be a grave miscalculation as the Nazis begin deporting Jews from the ghetto to labor camps in Poland ... at this point, Weisel and his father are separated from his mother and younger sister. The remainder of the book is about survival based on ingenuity, fate and others' misfortunes. As he and his father trudge through the hell of Auschwitz; it isn't until later that Weisel begins to assume the fate of his sister and mother.
Throughout the book, death is both random and a frequent sight, with the lines of people plodding to the chimneys that endlessly spew the ashes of thousands upon thousands ... a constant reminder of his inevitible fate. Weisel frequently contemplates his faith in God, because there is no way, he believes, that God would allow such inhumanity on such a grand scale. When the thundering artillery of the approaching Red Army are actually being felt, the Nazis crudely force the inmates of Auschwitz on a death march to Germany that only the strong could possibly survive. At this point Weisel sees and feels how the bonds of family become unglued when starvation becomes extreme and how the endless dead are unceremoniously disposed. Buchenwald is the final destination of the death march and it is there where Weisel experiences his ultimate loss and eventual liberation by the Americans.
At 120 pages (including a transcript of the author's Nobel Prize speech), Weisel didn't need many words to bring forth the pain, suffering and loss he experienced and witnessed. I found myself constantly putting myself in Weisel's shoes, often wondering how he had the will, at sixteen years of age, to endure such horrific circumstances. I intended to be critical of this book in that it left me with so many questions, mainly follow-up questions, like Weisel's thoughts looking back. But, with the book still making me think several days after I read it, I accepted and appreciated "Night" for what it was ... a nightmare that became reality for a teenager ... a capsule of that particular moment in time, no more, no less.
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M. A. Peceny (GR, MI)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book arrived in excellent condition. Only problem was it somehow did not get shipped until I informed seller that it had not arrived within the specified date. It had been overlooked and was sent promptly after I inquired. Alls well that ends well.
 Powerful Holocaust story, but Wiesel's bitterness runs deeper than the Holocaust January 20, 2010
Daniel Mackler (www.iraresoul.com)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although this is a powerful Holocaust story, Elie Wiesel is very bitter and his bitterness goes far deeper than he admits. He blames his bitterness on the Holocaust, and considering what he went through at the hand of the Nazis some of this, of course, would be valid. But I see his deeper bitterness as stemming from an earlier source: his "beloved" family of childhood.
It struck me that the Holocaust gave Wiesel a great excuse to manifest his bitter, angry, resentful childhood feelings (which should have legitimately been directed toward his parents) onto a safe target: the Nazis.
After all, who could dare criticize him?
A scene from the book which confirmed my perspective: Wiesel is at Buchenwald (on page 101 of the paperback) and brings his feverish father a cup of water (or is it coffee?---it's not clear). His father gulps it down, at which point Elie Wiesel provides the reader with the following commentary: "With those few gulps of hot water I probably brought him more satisfaction than I had done during my whole childhood."
Although this line is meant to sound like hyperbole, I actually think he's telling the truth.
Concise memior that all should read December 26, 2009
Natanya
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having read a number of holocaust memiors before, I knew Wiesel's night would be a difficult but important read to further deepen my knowledge of these events we must never forget. He manages to give a poignant and concise account of his experience, incorporating objective views of what occurs around him, which includes the saga of his father's time in the concentration camp with him. His tale of survival is nothing short of inspirational and I was moved by how strong he was not only to go through all he details, but to be able to put it all on paper in such a compelling way.
If you are interested in more riveting accounts of the holocaust, Sala's Gift provides a detailed account of a woman's struggle to survive through the brutality which occurred.
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