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Night (Oprah's Book Club) |  | Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Category: Book
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Rating:  710 reviews
Sales Rank: 107
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 120
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0374500010
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
EAN: 9780374500016
ASIN: 0374500010
Publication Date: January 16, 2006
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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.
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.
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 An Entertaining Book July 26, 2010
crcarlos
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Night by Elie Whitney is surely a book that will keep you entertained. The book is about the story of the holocaust a subject the Author Elie Whitney lived first-hand showing the readers the strong feelings she felt, the dreams she longed for, and the Night she'd rather skip.
A truly heartbreaking memoir July 13, 2010
Amber Finch (Missouri)
Night is an absolutely heartbreaking memoir. It short and it is simple. The writing does not flow lyrically and is unembellished. The truth is that none of this matters. The voice of Wiesel....the voice of a man who has suffered loss, pain, and suffering that is incomprehensible to anyone who has not been in his position....makes this book what it is. He writes not only with his own voice, but also with the voices of the millions of other Jewish people who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust. Night is an account of Elie Wiesel's time in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel writes with a voice that recalls loss in it's most tragic sense...loss of family, loss of humanity, loss of belief. It is hard to describe how I felt when reading this account...because as sad and horrified as I found myself while reading, I still know that what I felt was nothing compared to the sadness of the families that were there. No words really seem to be strong enough or raw enough to describe the book. I feel strongly that this should be required reading for everyone. My reason for feeling this way is the same as Wiesel's reason for writing this memoir. Humanity can never be allowed to forget what happened during that dark hour of the world's history. Allowing the world to forget would be a disrespect to the people involved....those who survived as well as those who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis. We are at a point in time where the number of survivors is dwindling quickly. Wiesel felt that this book was needed so that the world would never forget....because to forget would open the door for something like that to happen again. Night serves as a reminder of the terror that happened during the Holocaust...a reminder of our responsibility to prevent such an event from ever happening again
Night June 24, 2010
Ann (Houston, Texas)
I appreciate the quickness in which I received this order. I purchased it for my daughter's summer reading and wanted to make sure that she had ample time in which to read the book. I was afraid that it was going to take a while to receive, but this was not the case. Thank you very much for great customer service !
 A hungry man is not a free man June 23, 2010
Candelario Henry Galvan (Houston Texas)
This book speaks only of the facts, your soul will provide the horror and despair.
Like the Elie your left with the skin and bones of what happened. This book should be required reading all over the world
one of the two or three most perfect books I know of June 20, 2010
Caraculiambro (La Mancha and environs)
The best book about the Holocaust I've ever read. It's short, but it will knock you flat. Hard to believe something that's only about 100 pages can pack such a wallop. Worth its weight in gold.
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