Format:
Book
Author:
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016, author.
Title:
Night / Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel.
Edition:
First edition of new translation.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
©2006
Description:
xxi, 120 pages ; 22 cm
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 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.-- Provided by publisher.
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.-- Back cover.
Subjects:
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016 -- Childhood and youth.
Jews -- Romania -- Sighetu Marmației -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania -- Sighetu Marmației -- Personal narratives.
Sighetu Marmației (Romania) -- Biography.
Genre:
Creative nonfiction.
Autobiographies.
Other Author:
Wiesel, Marion, translator.
Other Title:
Nuit. English
Notes:
Accelerated Reader Upper Grades 4.8 4.0 Quiz: 5279.
Reading Counts High School 8.7 6.0 Quiz.
Translation of: Un di ṿelṭ hoṭ geshṿign.
Contents:
Preface to the New Translation by Elie Wiesel -- Foreword by François Mauriac -- Night -- The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo (Norway) on December 10, 1986.
Web Site:
LCCN:
2005936797
ISBN:
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Other Number:
65206975
System Availability:
6
Current Holds:
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6
Control Number:
1004512
Call Number:
940.5318 Wiesel
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