Night (Oprah's Book Club) | Elie Wiesel

Night (Oprah's Book Club) | Elie Wiesel | Haunting

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	Night (Oprah's Book Club) Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 - 120 pages average customer review:based on 635 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

WE MUSTN'T FORGET!!!

Night is the accounts of one man's one year survivial of one of our worlds worst atrocities. Clearly, while reading this book I too would question with every turn of the pages, "where was god?". If anything would test one's faith, I couldn't imagine anything more befitting. There are countless survivors of millions of different struggles. Mine has been a congenital heart disease. Many of us have a story to tell. But the underlining message here is how one man hung on to something special and dear in his heart, something more powerful that all the cruelty that was delt him could not penetrate and taint his sheild; ..."where god was". Many, obviously, did not survive the holocaust. Not because they didn't believe that god is love. And not because they didn't believe in themselves. But because a design beyond our control has a plan. Elie Wiesel knew god was with him the entire time, as with us all, always. And we are fortunate to read his story and listen to his painful lectures. Lest we forget our history, god delivered Elie Wiesel's survival to us. This is a highly recommended read for anyone. I, for one, am grateful to this man for sharing his life with me.

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Haunting

A must read so we will not forget that the civilized world swore we would not allow this to happen again. To our shame our country turned a blind eye to Rwanda and Darfur because we have forgotten.

This book is a quick read, but has a long lasting impact.

Well worth it...

I've been meaning to read "Night" for a while. I see it every time I pop into a bookstore. Plus it's only 115 pages and can be read over a few hours. I suspect it's taken me this long to read it because I knew it would be disturbing. How could a story of surviving Auschwitz be anything but disturbing?

I finally got around to reading it today and it is well worth the uncomfortable feelings it elicits. Wiesel writes in a spare, journalistic style. He depicts his harrowing journey with surprising swiftness -- he and his family were transported from a Transylvanian ghetto to Poland during 1944. Stories were already circulating about the Russian front making strides to liberate them; many of Wiesel's comrades were hopeful they would be spared. All hope died when they arrive by cattle car to the camps. The scenes depicted here -- of starvation, cruelty, senseless death -- are not easy to read. Most wrenching is Wiesel's relationship with his father. By saving the very personal to the end, Wiesel holds off on fully engrossing the reader until the bitter end. This is a powerful style choice -- just as you're finishing the volume, you're overcome by the pure evil of what has transpired.

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A Very Important Book

Well, this is a very important book, although it makes for such painful reading. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his parents and his little sister were rounded up by the Nazis and sent to a series of concentration camps. When an SS guard barked, "Men to the left! Women to the right!" he lost his mother and sister forever. He subsequently clung to his father, although he was ashamed of dishonoring him by not standing up to the Germans who beat and humiliated him. In this excellent translation by his wife Marion, Wiesel offers up a horrific and extremely personal account of the Holocaust. He relates his own pain at being a deeply observant Jew who comes to feel abandoned by his God, unable to comprehend the absolute evil that mankind has wrought, with no divine intervention to answer even the most desperate of prayers. Eventually, his father gives up all hope because of his extreme suffering and dies, just before the Allies liberate Buchenwald. A shattered Wiesel, who would remain tormented by his memories for the rest of his life, finally becomes a free man and goes forward to tell his eyewitness tale so that this shameful era of history will not be forgotten. Many years later, in 1986, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in honor of the Jewish people.

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heart wrenching but lacking

I read the other reviews for this book and went right out to my library to check it out. It is a thin book so it's easy to read it in a day or less.
I have great respect and admiration for the Jewish people and survivors of the Halocaust. It is an event that will forver stay in history and no one will ever forget. Jews were truly wronged.
I love reading memoirs and this book intrigued me by it's descriptions of "horrific", etc. It still can be hard to believe that this happened to the Jewish people. However, I did not get the "horrific" details from this book that I thought it promised.
I believe this man was in a horrible place and exposed to terrible conditions but I just didn't feel the pain as I read the book. I think it could have been much more descriptive with details.

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