Book description
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was
sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This
is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he
endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world
that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple
terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective,
Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all
accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling consideration of the darkest
side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of
the most important works of the twentieth century.
New translation by Marion Wiesel, with a new introduction by Elie Wiesel.
Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now
part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were
deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied
in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the
distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write
about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his
internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been
translated into more than thirty languages.
