And this is perhaps one of the most approachable books when it comes to length (quite short, can be finished in a sitting) and comprehensiveness. My thoughts on that debacle is that (generally speaking) if kids are old enough to be around the age of the young protagonist of this non-fiction novel, they’re old enough to learn about what he went through. Night is a book that is taught in middle school and highschool and has also been challenged for its content. ![]() I go into reviewing classics with a bit of trepidation, since the lion’s share of books featured on this blog are “for fun” general fiction, YA, thrillers, fantasy, etc. Definitely a key inclusion on any of those “Books You Must Read Before You Die” type lists. ![]() Warning, this is less a review and more a scattered (yet hopefully brisk) stream-of-consciousness about how this book made me feel and why it’s important. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel’s testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again. ![]() Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald.
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