Night (Oprah's Book Club #55)

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    Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teena
 
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    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 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 Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forget man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Author Bio: Elie Wiesel is the internationally celebrated author, Nobel laureate, and spokesperson for humanity whose decision to dedicate his life to bearing witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors found its earliest and most enduring voice in Night, his penetrating and profound account of the Nazi death camps. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, he 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. Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.
 

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Overall Rating: 4.6

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Required reading

PapaD from El Paso, TX, Jul 17, 2009

This is the most heart-breaking volume I've ever read. These people witnessed the most horrific sights and endured the most painful suffering...and they survived. I don't know if I could have! This new translation by Elie's wife rings with the truth and it is so matter-of-fact that I found myself shaking my head in disbelief. How could this have happened and nobody knew? This should be read in every school in every city in every land. Please, God, that it shouldn't happen again.

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Amazing!

nando2007 from Wilmington, CA, Aug 17, 2008

This book is so great in so many levels! It's a book that you can read over and over again and every time you learn something different. I first read it in my 11th grade English class and after I was just like I have to buy that book. I highly recommend this book. =]

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Life changing book

bioluminescence from California, Aug 4, 2008

A gripping story about a boy's memories of the Holocaust, Night was a life changing book for me. This book was assigned by my English teacher in sophomore year and it brought to my then young mind a sense of reality: on the one hand the cruelty that humans are capable of and on the other the sorrow that can be endured. Night was the first book that made see the world in a different way.

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Night

janese from Fennville, MI, Mar 31, 2008

A short, but oh so powerful book. A story that should never be forgotten. I think every young person on this planet should read it and realize how important it is to be kind to our fellow man.

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Night

elenatj from El Paso, Texas, Mar 30, 2008

Beautiful, inspirational and heartbreaking. What courage to tell the world of such a horrific experience.

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