Night - 9780374534752

"I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God. There was nothing left. And yet we begin again with night.”

Chilling and devastatingly true, Night is considered Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece – described as a “candid, horrific, and deeply poignant” autobiographical record of his survival as a teenager in Nazi death camps after his family was taken from their home in Sighet, Transylvania in 1944. Painfully real and at most times terrifying, Elie recalls the experience of confronting death in many forms – the death of family members, the death of innocence, and the death of God.

Newly translated by Wiesel’s wife Marion and including a preface by Elie in which he reflects on the importance of the novel and his lifelong pursuit of ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man, this version of Night is the most accurate to date and offers a raw and unforgettable account of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and its continued legacy throughout the history of humanity.

Eloquently addressing both personal and philosophical questions about the Holocaust, Night has become a classroom staple for its detailed and intimate accounts of this horrific period in history.