Night

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Synopsis
When Elie Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945, having also been in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna, he imposed a ten-year vow of silence upon himself before trying to describe what had happened to him and over six million other Jews. When he finally broke that silence, he had trouble finding a publisher. Such depressing subject matter. When Night was finally published, over twenty-five years ago, few people wanted to read about the Holocaust. Such depressing subject matter. But we cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly if it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear-the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide.
Copyright:
1986

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
115 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780553272536
Publisher:
Random House
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
MacGibbon & Kee
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies
Submitted By:
New York Times Books
Proofread By:
New York Times Books
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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