Night by Elie Wiesel

Night
By Elie Wiesel

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

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 Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s 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.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #97 in Books
* Published on: 2006-01-16
* Released on: 2006-01-16
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 144 pages

Editorial Reviews

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.

The New York Times
"A slim volume of terrifying power"

Alfred Kazin
"No one has left behind him so moving a record."
Customer Reviews

Wiesel's NIGHT even better

I may have been too young when I first read NIGHT. The impact was lost on me. Having recently listened to the new translation, I was blown away. Narrated by George Guidall, a man who could easily have been my grandfather, NIGHT takes us into a world so dark, so unreal, that one wonders if this could really happen. Of course the story of NIGHT is based on fact which makes it that much more powerful. I found myself getting angry and sad and asking the same kinds of questions the hero of the book asks. This book should be required reading in every school in America. It forces us to think of the horrors that real people can inflict on other real people. Perhaps by understanding the atrocities discussed in the book, we can avoid these from ever happening again.