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Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography. Like Wiesel himself, the protagonist of Night is a scholarly, pious teenager racked with guilt at having survived the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.

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

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

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4.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, Jun 18 2004

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Josh Moffit (Philippines) - See all my reviews
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I wish I could say this is book is fiction, but the fact that the book is retelling the author's actual experience is sickening. The book is an easy read; I read the book in about 90 minutes. How horrible can humanity be? Read this book to see the depths of human wickedness. The only thing worse than the gruesome history of the concentration camps is the group of people who are trying to deny the existence of the holocaust. The horrifying events involving the holocaust need to be remembered so that we do not let this type of thing happen again.

In the book, God becomes forgotten because of human suffering. This conclusion comes from the presupposition that God exists for human comfort on earth. Surely the Jew does not believe that God exists for their comfort, but because they go through suffering the main character in the book abandons his belief in God. This is an illogical decision made by the main character. Even if God existed for human comfort, surely that comfort should never come on this earth, but in the afterlife. Though the main character went through incredibly awful situations, he sold out on his beliefs. Too bad.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you can break my covenant...Jeremiah 33:20, May 24 2004

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Scamp Lumm "Littlesorrel/christian zionist" (Perseus-Pisces cluster, ~100Mpc) - See all my reviews

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THUS SAITH THE LORD;

If ye can break my covenant with the day, my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season; THEN may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests my ministers.

In other words, good luck you rocket scientists, see if you can outdo G-d Himself!!!

I Chronicles 17:27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee forever: for thou blessest, O Lord, and it shall be blessed forever-words of King David, second king of Israel.

Robert Frost's acquaintance with night surely can't compare with Wiesel's account. If you're not acquainted with Wiesel's Night, then read this book, easily read in one day.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Overpowering and Humbling...., July 2 2004

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eduardo "bronx49er" (Massapequa, NY) - See all my reviews

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l am a Christian and was absolutely stunned by this book. To read -and more importantly to re-read and reflect - about the trials and tribulations of a devoted Jewish family as they went from a loving, religious/spiritual home to a ghetto, then to the railroad yards, then to a Concentration Camp...is to be transported to a nightmarish journey and world that must never be taken for granted, that must be understood deeply, and which must be respected with our hearts more than with our minds.

To criticize any victim of the Holocaust for doubting or questioning their G-d is to live in a fantasy world. Unless one has lived through the horror and degradations of the Holocaust, he should be quiet. As for me, whenever l see or think of the child-victims and their parents of those terrible days, l think of me and my own children in their place...and it keeps me very humble.

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