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Night: Summary and book reviews of Night by Elie Wiesel, plus links to an excerpt from Night and a biography of Elie Wiesel.

Night
by Elie Wiesel
Hardcover: Jan 2006,
144 pages.
Paperback: Jan 2006,
144 pages.

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BOOK 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 Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forget man’s capacity for inhumanity to man.

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

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About.com - Erin Collazo Miller
I am disturbed by the fact that Wiesel never returns to hope or faith. He raises big questions about humanity and suffering, but the book never points toward a meaningful answer. I want redemption, or at least some hint of light. But Wiesel did not experience light, and Night will not let the reader pretend the Holocaust was anything other than what it was.

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The New York Times
A slim volume of terrifying power

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Oprah Winfrey
I gain courage from his courage

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Alfred Kazin
No one has left behind him so moving a record.

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Rated of 5 by Camaro
WOWWWWW!!!!!
Night is the BEST book i have ever read about the holocaust. Unlike most Holocaust book it is not a very emotional book in the tense that it makes you sad, but it does fill you with anger at the way humanity acts towards each other. The childish... Read More

Rated of 5 by Bryant Alexander
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I read Night and to me it summarizes a man who meant threw such pain and torture that there was never a light at the end of it. Elie single-handedly changed the way I saw the Holocaust. He brought forth the meaning of CHALLENGE....

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