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From Barnes & Noble"In Night, I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an endman, history, literature, religion, God. There was nothing left. And yet we began again with night." First published in Argentina in 1955, Elie Wiesel's memoir about his experiences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald became one of the two most acclaimed and read first-person accounts of the Holocaust era; Anne Frank's posthumously published diary being the other. This revised, corrected edition was translated by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife. Now in trade paperback and NOOK Book. Curt Leviant"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art." -- Saturday Review The New York Times"A slim volume of terrifying power.
About the Author
Eliezer Wiesel was a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He was the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is , a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," noting that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel has delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity. On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London, England in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.
