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Night is Elie Wiesel s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, his wife & frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language & spirit truest to the original intent. In a new preface, he reflects on the enduring importance of Night & his lif... More

Night is Elie Wiesel s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, his wife & frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language & spirit truest to the original intent. In a new preface, he reflects on the enduring importance of Night & his lifelong dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets the human capacity for inhumanity. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions & rampant sadism at Auschwitz & Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant & what its legacy is.
Elie Wiesel is the internationally celebrated author, Nobel laureate & spokesperson for humanity whose decision to dedicate his life to bearing witness for the Holocaust's martyrs & survivors found its earliest & most enduring voice in Night, his account of the Nazi death camps. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, he was a teenager when he & his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz, then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of his memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence & his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting absolute evil. He's the author of over forty works of fiction & nonfiction. He's been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor & the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. He's Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities & University Professor at Boston University.

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