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Dawn
Dawn
Author: Elie Wiesel
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,...  more »
ISBN: 421527
Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 127
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Publisher: Bard Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed Dawn on + 80 more book reviews
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This short novel is compelling and haunting. The story of an 18 year old Jewish boy who survived the concentration camps and is now an executioner and terrorist and surprisingly human and empathetic. I challenge you to put the book down!
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Set in the fight against England for freedom of the Jews in the Palestine, this is a portrait of a freedom fighter who is assigned to kill a hostage in retribution for the hanging of another fighter. As disturbing as his holocaust novellas.
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A brief read. Did not like it as well as Night but could easily have been written today.
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I have fallen in love with Elie Wiesel's books. Even though I have only read two. Night is one of my all time favorite..this one comes in around the top 50! It amazes me how he can go through traumatic events and write about them with such demeanor. This book takes place in one night and ends at "dawn" which is the pivot point in the novel. I was so stunned at the ending for the simple fact that I thought that it would not end the way that it did. It is really an eye opener to see what the Holocaust and the after effects were like. I think everyone should at least read one Elie Wiesel's novel..they are in my opinion a novel that makes you think!
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Sad story - deals with a terrorist conflict about killing innocent people - very easy reading but sad. Read in one sitting
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Dawn is an unforgettable journey into the human heart-and an eloquent statement about the moral basis of the new Isreal.


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