A Beggar in Jerusalem Author:Elie Wiesel In a novel of soaring power and stunning sensitivity, the major events of a century collide in the body and soul of one man. Elie Wiese's gret best seller is the unforgettable story of a people's desperate struggle to defend itself and to forge on the anvil of history a new destiny. In the author's words, it is "an adventure of one madman, who o... more »ne night saw not the end of all things, but their beginning." It is a novel of men and women, despair and hope, and of a man confronting his fate« less