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Night
- 135 pages · about 2 hours
- First published 1956
- 59 editions
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1 About this book
Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel, first published in Yiddish in 1956 and later in French and English. It recounts his experiences as a teenager in 1944 and 1945, when he and his father were taken from the ghetto in his hometown of Sighet to the Nazi camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The book follows his efforts to stay alive and to stay with his father, and describes the loss of his faith. Night is the first book of a trilogy with Dawn and Day.
- History
- Biography
- Autobiography
- Fantasy
- Romance literature
- Jewish people, biography
- Personal Memoirs
- Cabala
2 What to expect
Elie Wiesel's short memoir of being deported as a teenager from his Romanian hometown to Auschwitz and Buchenwald with his father in 1944. It is about faith lost under atrocity, about survival at the cost of human bonds, and about the changing relationship between father and son. The prose is spare, quiet and direct; the book is brief but deeply upsetting, with scenes of starvation, violence and death.
Good for readers who want: Holocaust memoir, a short, powerful read, and testimony about faith.
3 About Elie Wiesel
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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