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

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.

Media Reviews

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.   The New York Times A slim volume of terrifying power   Oprah Winfrey I gain courage from his courage   Saturday Review - Curt Leviant Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art. Alfred Kazin No one has left behind him so moving a record.

Recent Reader Reviews

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
Challenge
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....

Rated of 5 by TeXaS~CoWgIrL
Absolutly the Greatest!
This book inspired me to enjoy life as it is because you never know when death will come knocking at your door. He was brave and tough as stone. This is by far the best book I have ever read. I hope one day my kids will read this and feel the same.

Rated of 5 by nichole peters
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This makes you really think about life in the holocaust . I just recently read it in school. I just wish he would tell a little more about his life after the holocaust but overall it shows how real the holocaust was.

Rated of 5 by BEH
Night
AMAZING! I loved this book. Wiesel packs so much power and meaning behind the words it's overwhelming, but in a good way.

Rated of 5 by Tharun ISB OR
Night
Many Holocaust survivors still remember their experiences in Concentration camps, with starvation, with no water. Night, by Elizer Wiesel, provides a short and moving account of his experience in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. This...   Read More

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