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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  seekingbooks3 | Feb 9, 2010 |  A beautiful, carefully crafted account of Wiesel's time in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. I have read this two or three times now, and each time I reread it, I find another little detail that I missed earlier. The suffering of the protagonists is palpable, as is Wiesel's loss of religious faith in Nazi hands. I think Wiesel's talent lies in the simple expression of his own experience, and apprehending the biggest of questions; where was God in the camps? Essential reading for anyone interested in the theology of the Holocaust, and a good starting point if you're new to reading Holocaust survivor testimonies. pokarekareana | Feb 2, 2010 | This was so difficult to read--the rawness of it made it almost impossible to keep going (I'm ashamed that I hadn't read it previously.) I don't know what made me more sad...the facts as they happened or that he lost his relationship with God in the process. (  ) AngieN | Feb 1, 2010 | This was a beautifully written book about a mans survival during the Holocaust. ( ) Kace | Jan 30, 2010 | The true story of the author's memoirs as a 15 year old Jewish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. This book is heartbreaking. Even though it is short and simply written, I would say that it is one of the most moving and powerful books I have ever read; it made me cry so many times. It's hard to believe that the horrifying experiences Elie faces actually happened, and not all that long ago. This is a very sad, extremely powerful and forceful story. It won the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. One of my new favorite books... very sad and very powerful. ( ) joririchardson | Jan 20, 2010 | 
 [Wiesel's] slim volume of terrifying power is the documentary of a boy - himself- who survived the "Night" that destroyed his parents and baby sister, but lost his God.
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0374500010, Paperback)In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:38:13 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Eli Wiesel is truly a hero in a world where heroes are few. (