Night Trilogy - Night / Dawn / Day - Elie Wiesel [azw3 epub mobi]
Title: Night Trilogy
Author: Elie Wiesel
Series: Night (#1 - 3)
Formats: .azw3 / .epub / .mobi
Genres: Nonfiction, Classics, Memoir, Holocaust, Biography, School, Historical, War, World War II, Read For School
URL: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1617.Night
Contains:
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)120 pages, Paperback | First published January 1, 1956Dawn (The Night Trilogy, #2)98 pages, Kindle Edition | First published January 1, 1960Day (The Night Trilogy, #3)130 pages, Kindle Edition | First published March 1, 1961
Description:
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"e;Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death"e;--
Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and 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, and what its legacy is and will be.
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.
The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author's classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which includes his memoir Night and novel Dawn. "e;In Night it is the ‘I' who speaks,"e; writes Wiesel. "e;In the other two, it is the ‘I' who listens and questions."e;
In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel's masterful portrayal of one man's exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel's narrator. Torn between choosing life or death, Day again and again returns to the guiding questions that inform Wiesel's trilogy: the meaning and worth of surviving the annihilation of a race, the effects of the Holocaust upon the modern character of the Jewish people, and the loss of one's religious faith in the face of mass murder and human extermination