My rating: 5 stars
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 Weisel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in the substantive new preface, Elie Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man 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.
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 review: I read this book recommended by my friend Nicole. I do not have very eloquent words to express my feelings about this book. It was powerful and very moving. The best way to sum it up, is in the following quote from the book on page 34:
"NEVER SHALL I FORGET that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never."
2 comments:
That is a very good book. Sad, but good. Have you read These is My Words yet? You have to.
LOL, you make me laugh when I see the books you read. They are always sad. Although, I'm glad you are going along with me in reading the 52 books. Hey, just wanted to let you know...I went to the library the other day and they have a summer reading program. read 10 books get a prize...read 25...get a prize and so on. Since I am already reading I figured...why not get a free prize? Check your library out and see if they have something.
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