A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight 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 … 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.
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Elie Wiesel is very articulate. He utters every sentence from the heart. His narrative made me feel as if I were there. Although he lived in conditions of unspeakable horror, he is able to share his experience in a manner that is open and honest.
By chance I read this book a few months before reading Left To Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza. I was stunned by the parallels between the two personal accounts, of the Nazi Holocaust, and of the Rwandan genocide some forty years later. Both are books that everyone must read if we are ever to overcome humanity’s cyclical drive to identify an “other”, …
This book is a tragic reminder of what can happen when no one is paying attention! What happened in the holocaust was so frightening that we must not forget this.
I have read this book numerous times and once I start it, I can not put it down. Wiesel’s horrific story grabs readers by the heart as he describes the loss of his family and the tragic events of his life.
When one is in the mood for terror and horror in a book one usually looks in the fiction section for Stephen King or maybe H.P. Lovecraft. This book of terror is different. It is an autobiography. To me as a father and a husband it’s beginning passages where the Hungarian Jewish town’s people are warned that the Nazi’s are approaching to take …
One of the most powerful, haunting stories I’ve ever read.
Everyone should read this book of survival in a Nazi death camp. This happened and we must make sure it is not forgotten and never happens again.
How can I possibly write a review for this truly classical novel/memoir that would do it justice? I’ll still try. I read it the first time a long time ago and just recently came back to this book because in the back of my mind it was always there, just like my most favorite movie “Schindler’s List.” And just like it was hard to watch the movie, it …
Night is classic Wiesel, and a must read for students of the Holocaust. I’ve taught this book many times, and each time am struck by the depth of human depravity and the majesty of human resilience as evidenced in his account of the camps.
This is the true story of Elie Weisel and his family who were forced from their home in 1944 by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camps. After arrival, he and his father were separated from this mother and sisters. Elie was 15 years old at that time. He and his father were moved to different camps but were able to stay together. This …
Tear-jerker. I absolutely loved this book. The writing made you feel as if you were right beside Elie Wiesel as he experienced the holocaust
A book everyone should read.
It’s very sad. What happened back then was so terrible!
I’m going to read the other book from him
This book was so heart breaking to read :(. Its terrible anyone had to live thru that. And to get separted from your family,omg i couldnt that would actually kill me. This book is a must read if you are interested in the holocaust.
Loved the book; started slow but quickly picked up the pace; glad to have read it.
Haunting. Every timeI read a book about this period of history I am reminded that a sophisticated, well educated and civilized nation can become incredibly brutal. A warning for all nations who smugly look at NAZI Germany and claim it could never happen here.
This short book has been one of my most reached for books for its resources in explaining the account of the true, horrible details Eli Wiesel described upon arriving to the Auschwitz death camps in Poland, at the young age of 14.
What he saw that night, and the following days and nights forced an otherwise pensive, sensitive, well raised and …
Wiesel’s memoir Night is a brutally straightforward depiction of life in a Nazi concentration camp. His two short novels Dawn and Day go further, examining the consequences for those who survive such atrocities—guilt, alienation, despair, hopelessness, anger and, sometimes, violence. There is not much action in these stories, but their message is …
This is one of the classics everyone should read. Most happy to get it at bargain price from Bookbub.
Incredible account. Should be taught beginning in 6th or 7th grade.