Night
1955 • 126 pages

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Average rating4.3

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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.


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3 primary books

#1 in The Night Trilogy

The Night Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1955 with contributions by Elie Wiesel.

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Night
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A very moving and respectful account regarding Holocaust. Heartbreaking.

January 4, 2022

Must-read Holocaust literature. I finally picked it up shortly after Elie Wiesel's death. I regret not reading it when I was younger.

September 8, 2016

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Analyzing this book for school was very insightful, and was a great pace. Not my favorite but gets 5 stars because of how well it was written

May 22, 2021

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