Christine G. (Cricket) reviewed on 5/30/2006 + 69 more book reviews

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Great book. After all the hype and everything I had heard about it I was expecting it to be more disturbing. I am NOT saying the topic and story isn't disturbing and horrifying, but there weren't as many gruesome details as I was expecting so it made it easier to read than expected. This truly was a JUST THE FACTS memoir which is what made the book so great. No unnecesary details. Just the bare bones story...exactly what I was hoping for. This was something Wiesel REALLY experienced and loved the fact he didn't try to exploit anything or over exaggerate for "shock value". A must read.


About the book:
Born in the town of Signet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. "Night" is the terrifying record of Elie Weisel'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. 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 never be allowed to happen again.

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