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The long-anticipated memoirs of the novelist and Nobel Peace Laureate open with a child's entry into hell. We see the boy, Elie Wiesel, torn from a traditional and loving Jewish family life in a Carpathian village and dragged through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. We see him emerge a bloodless adolescent, a mute spirit, with no homeland. In his passionate, poignant, and moving account of those years—and the amazing years that followed—a remarkable life unfolds.
At war's end, parents and youngest sister vanished, life begins anew in a French orphanage. The boy has to speak in a new language, navigate in a new culture, find within himself a way to re-embrace his fellows. Wiesel recalls his struggle with his God, and his intense sorties into the study of philosophy, the Jewish Scriptures, and the lore of the mystics. He remembers the gradual rekindling of old... Tovább

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The long-anticipated memoirs of the novelist and Nobel Peace Laureate open with a child's entry into hell. We see the boy, Elie Wiesel, torn from a traditional and loving Jewish family life in a Carpathian village and dragged through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. We see him emerge a bloodless adolescent, a mute spirit, with no homeland. In his passionate, poignant, and moving account of those years—and the amazing years that followed—a remarkable life unfolds.
At war's end, parents and youngest sister vanished, life begins anew in a French orphanage. The boy has to speak in a new language, navigate in a new culture, find within himself a way to re-embrace his fellows. Wiesel recalls his struggle with his God, and his intense sorties into the study of philosophy, the Jewish Scriptures, and the lore of the mystics. He remembers the gradual rekindling of old dreams. He is comforted by the survival of two of his sisters. And we see him becoming once again fully alive.
Here is Wiesel at seventeen, a young man of Paris, exploring a new universe. Adolescent love claims him. The birth of Israel exalts him. He becomes an apprentice journalist. He encounters great Yiddish writers. He discovers his métier.
We see him beginning to travel the world, covering the tangled Mideast conflicts that followed Israel's coming to statehood, the early days of the United Nations, the Eichmann trial. He forms friendships with Golda Meir and François Mauriac and the deepest of attachments to Israel. He speaks out on the plight of the Soviet Jews. And in the late 1950s, inspired to write his first book, Night, he finds at last his voice as witness. His work is thereafter consecrated to the remembrance of the victims and the defense of the survivors and of
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all oppressed people. His life becomes a combat—powered by love, compassion, and sometimes rage—between doubt and faith, despair and tmst, forgetting and memory.
He has written a profoundly moving and brilliant memoir.
Elie Wiesel is the author of more than thirty books, including Ni^ht, The Accident, A Beggar in Jerusalem (winner of the Prix Medicis), The Forgotten, and From the Kingdom of Memory. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University. Most of his books have been translated into English by his wife, Marion. The Wiesels live in New York City with their son, Elisha.
With i6 pages of photographs
Front-oJ-jacket photograph hy Eddie Adams, back-of-jacket photograph courtesy of Elie Wiesel
Jacket design by Archie Ferguson Vissza