Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short vel Dawn (1961), a young man who has survived the Second World War and settled in Palestine is apprenticed to a Jewish terrorist gang. Command to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage, the former victim becomes an executioner. In The Accident, (1962), Wiesel again turns to fiction to question the limits of the spirit and the self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories of the old? As the author writes in his introduction, In Night it is the 'I' who speaks; in the other two narratives], it is the 'I' who listens and questions. Wiesel's trilogy offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on temptation of self-destruction. A Hill & Wang Teacher's Guide is available for this title.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hill & Wang
ISBN-10
0809073692
ISBN-13
9780809073696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
184141971
Product Key Features
Author
Elie Wiesel
Format
Hardback, Sewn,Cloth over Boards,With Dust Jacket
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Additional Product Features
Author Biography
Elie Wiesel, the author of some twenty books, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at Boston University. He and his family live in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
Date of Publication
15/06/2004
Country of Publication
United States
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