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Night (Paperback)
Short Description for NightDescribing the tragic murder of people from a survivor's perspective, this book presents an account of the Holocaust. It offers a description of the ever-increasing horrors endured by the author, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity, and faith.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 25 May 2006
- Format: Paperback 144 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Jewish Studies | European History | Holocaust
- ISBN 13: 9780140189896 ISBN 10: 0140189890
- Sales rank: 21,285
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Night
Despite numerous other important Holocaust memorials, Nobel Peace Prize- winner Elie Wiesel's widely-read autobiography Night remains a vital, harrowing, and still astonishing book. It is, perhaps, the book that single-handedly did most to enable a fuller understanding of the depravity of the Nazi project. Born in Sighet, Transylvania, Weisel was just a teenager when he, and his family, were taken from their home to the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. Night is his almost unbearably moving account of the death of his family and his direct acquaintance with the Nazi death machine. This is a new translation by Wiesel's wife, Marion (she "knows my voice and how to transmit it better than anyone else"), and is, Elie says in a moving introduction, corrected and revised in a number of important details. Some controversy has always attached itself to the book with questions asked about how novelised Wiesel's account actually is. But such criticisms pale before the truth of the horrors that Night recounts. An essential read. by Mark Thwaite
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