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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Wow! What else can I say? The trilogy is truly moving, but really sad. (  ) Anagarika | Oct 30, 2009 |  I finally read this memoir and really enjoyed all three books. While Night can certainly stand alone, I found it so much richer when accompanied by Dawn and The Accident. (  ) ascgrrl | Oct 19, 2009 | Part 1. Concentration camp, Part 2. Liberation & terrorism Part 3. Numbness, and loss of desire to live. grheault | Jun 10, 2009 | Night I can't really say this is a "good" book, due to the content matter, but it certainly is an important book. It's an autobiographical account of Elie Wiesel's internment in the concentration camps of World War II. Most people have probably already read this book, but I never had to. But, like I said, it is definitely an important book of Shoah literature. Dawn A young survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp is enlisted in a Israeli terrorist group. The book follows his struggle with himself after being ordered to kill a British officer being held hostage by his organization. The Accident This semi-autobiographical account was originally entitled Day. The Accident is the story of a man who struggles to lead a life after surviving the concentration camps. One night, he is hit by a speeding taxi and almost killed. But, was it really an accident? Experiments in Reading ( ) PhoenixTerran | Mar 15, 2008 | Night- the horrifying story of a young man in a concentration camp Dawn-concentration camp survivor becomes executionist in israeli freedom army- The accident- debunks Simone Weil's asssertion (and for that matter the catholic church's contention that suffering leads to saintliness-idea that many who survived only survived in body only..One of those books that you don't want to read anymore but you feel like it would be an act of cowardice not to finish. ( ) wiremonkey | Feb 16, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0374521409, Paperback)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 novel 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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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