Review
"To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record."--Alfred Kazin

"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art."--Curt Leviant, Saturday Review



Review
"To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record."--Alfred Kazin

"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art."--Curt Leviant, Saturday Review



Book Description
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.



Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)


About the Author
Elie Wiesel, the author of some twenty books, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at Boston University. He and his family live in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986

ANNOTATION

These three great and compassionate books by the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize are a lasting document of the Holocaust.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

These stories live deeply in all that I have written and all that I am ever going to write. - Elie Wiesel

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 Aushwitz. 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. Commanded 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 to questions."