Night (Night)
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Description: Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, anddeeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager inthe Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife andfrequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirittruest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface,Elie Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong,passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forget man's capacityfor inhumanity to man.Author Bio: Elie Wiesel is the internationally celebrated author, Nobellaureate, and spokesperson for humanity whose decision to dedicate his lifeto bearing witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors found itsearliest and most enduring voice in Night, his penetrating and profoundaccount of the Nazi death camps. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania,he was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is theterrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, thedeath of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jewconfronting the absolute evil of man. Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed worksof fiction and nonfiction. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal ofFreedom, the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal, the FrenchLegion of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the Andrew W.Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at BostonUniversity.
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