Night
Trans. by Marion Wiesel Oprah #55
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · January 16, 2006
A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel.
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- Who it’s for
- A slim, emotionally direct read with the kind of clarity that lingers.
- Themes
- Holocaust, Survival, Memory
- Pacing
- Reflective
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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.
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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.
Sharp and Spare
A slim, emotionally direct read with the kind of clarity that lingers.
Come here for
- Elie Wiesel’s spare, unsparing voice
- a short, concentrated memoir experience
Expect
- memoir rather than history lesson
- serious, intimate, and unadorned
Where it sits
| Holocaust History | 77% |
|---|---|
| Survival Stories | 61% |
| Jewish Lives | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Jewish Lives
- Holocaust History
- Authors
- Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel, François Mauriac
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- January 16, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Holocaust · Survival · Memory
- Reading lane
- Jewish Lives