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Night, Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel

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Night, Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Night

Oclc number

65206975

Responsibility statement

Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, Upper Grades, 4.8, 4.0, Quiz: 5279.Reading Counts, High School, 8.7, 6.0, Quiz.

Summary

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. - PublisherBorn in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again. - Back cover

Table Of Contents

Preface to the New Translation by Elie Wiesel -- Foreword by François Mauriac -- Night -- The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo (Norway) on December 10, 1986

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