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"The anguish and loss of the moral Jew who has placed himself on the other side of the gun"--Commentary
"Shines gemlike with delicate writing,"--Saturday Review
"Shines gemlike with delicate writing,"--Saturday Review
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“The author…has built knowledge into artistic fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel’s ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Mailing was the only issue,
This review is from: Dawn (Paperback)
The book is great, I loved Elie's book called "Night" and Dawn gives me the same satisfaction, the only issue that has occured, is the fact that it took a month to get to me rather than the 2 weeks as predicted. Other then that I am pleased with the product I have recieved
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4.0 out of 5 stars (16 customer reviews) 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent thinking book & totally different from Night,
By Shi-doh! - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dawn (Paperback)
First off, this is not Night 2. I naively expected that when publisher's try to frame them as part of a 'trilogy'. Night is absolutely and without bar one of the most fantastic books I have read in my life.This is not just another chapter of that. And it is not a sequel. It is an incredibly profound, and beautifully written meditation on the journey of many Holocaust survivors -- but not his. This is a work of complete fiction. Many survivors went to Palestine, and fought the British (not the Arabs) to kick them out and thus be able to establish a free Jewish state. It is the story of a fictional Elishah (who has remarkably similar childhood and Holocaust experiences to those of Wiesel) who becomes one of these freedom fighters, and is ordered to execute a British officer in retaliation for their hanging one of the rebels. It is an account of the night that Elishah passes, knowing he has to become a murderer in the morning, and all of his internal struggles with that. In a particularly powerful lead up to the end, he realizes the power of hatred, how without hatred, terrorist groups like theirs, and indeed any violence against others is almost impossible. He notes how nations are so adept at teaching their people to hate, and even comes to the point of trying to make himself hate this stranger in order to be able to follow his orders. EXTREMELY powerful and evocative. One word of caution -- there is almost no action here. This is a thinking book. If you are not up to the mental effort to think and feel along with him, you will not like it. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Angsty and intense,
By Ash Ryan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dawn (Paperback)
Very well written...almost Dostoevskian, with a similar sort of religious existentialism. Wiesel makes the best argument I've ever heard for the so-called "cycle of violence"---but unfortunately, it's equivocal. The plot involves a distinction between cold-blooded acts of violence and those committed in the heat of the moment, but the theme depends on ignoring not only this distinction but any distinctions among any uses of force whatsoever (most significantly between an aggressor's initiation of force and the victim's retaliatory use of force in self-defense). Still, the story is very suspenseful and makes an excellent read. Three and a half stars.
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Great Book/Great Author!,
By Juanita T. Gibson - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Dawn (Paperback)
Bought this for my husband. He has read all of Wiesel's books. They are all gut wrenchingly real. You will enjoy this book. A definite read!
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