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Rent Night (Oprah's Book Club)
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: Jan 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $13.00
Pages: 144
Synopsis
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.
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Reviews
Deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. However, as tragic as a story this is and the horrors he had to endure, this is not a well written book. I have read books of this genre and this is not one that held my interest.