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Night  
Author: Elie Wiesel
ISBN: 0553272535
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Night -- A terrifying account  of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young  Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of  his family...the death of his innocence...and the  death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as  personal as The Diary Of Anne  Frank, Night awakens the shocking  memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it  the unforgettable message that this horror must  never be allowed to happen again.

Night

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Night — A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.

FROM THE CRITICS

Curt Leviant

"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art." -- Saturday Review

The New York Times

"A slim volume of terrifying power."

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"As a numan document, Night is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism." -- Commentary — A Alvarez

"To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record." — Alfred Kazin

"Weisel's books ... have marked him as the messenger of the Jewis dead to the living." -- Mirrors of the Jewish Mind — Lothar Kahn