Night
« Books | Posted on 04/25/2008 07:42 pm by Laura
Night
by Elie Wiesel
Started: April 25, 2008
Finished: May 19, 2008
Publisher 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.
My Rating:3 out of 5
My Review: My rating should not reflect the story much. I obviously did not finish reading the rest of this story. Though, it still confused me at some points but I never did like reading books that was not for fun.