Night: Edition 2

Elie Wiesel

Feb 2012 · Sold by Hill and Wang

About this ebook

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. 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.

Ratings and reviews

It's an outstanding book but also tragic and gory. In night their are many bloodsheds and slaughtering going on. And the concentration camps , the pits of the lost souls. The religion to believe , to have faith was not there and love of all had become hell. The so call Nazis, instruments for Adolf Hitlers plan of extinctions Jews for blonde is a sick and malevolent man who cold hearted... No heartless. The story is unfolded by Elie description of the events and things he saw as a survivor of the halocaust.

Heard about it but didn't have too much interest. Reading the first 20 pages got my attention. After that, k kept trying to find out how everything turned out and if it was for the best. And now that's Elie Wiesel died last week, I'm honored to have read his book and though it hurt reading it, it helped me appreciate where I am today

I don't have the words to do this memoir justice. It was amazing, shocking, true and just had so much depth to it. I found myself unable to put it down. Insight into a young man forced into adulthood and trails beyond his years. I was almost brought to tears a couple of times( I'm most certainly not a Crier). It was simply perfect.

About the author

Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) is the author of more than fifty books, including Night, his harrowing account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The book, first published in 1955, was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 2006, and continues to be an important reminder of man's capacity for inhumanity. Wiesel was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and lived with his family in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.