Night by Elie
Wiesel (Author)
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."
Oprah Winfrey
"I gain courage from his courage"
Book Description
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.
From the Inside Flap
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he
and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz
concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying
record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his
own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the
absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent
translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most
accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in
the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must never be
allowed to happen again. This edition also contains a new preface by the
author.
About the Author
Elie Wiesel, the author of some forty books, is Andrew W. Mellon
Professor in the Humanities at