Night

<p>Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, <i>Night</i> is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. <p>Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, <i>Night</i> is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century. <p>Elie Wiesel (b. 1928) was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, <i>La Nuit</i> or <i>Night</i>, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages. <p>If you enjoyed <i>Night</i>, you might also like Primo Levi's <i>The Periodic Table</i>, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. <p>'A slim volume of terrifying power'<br><i>The New York Times</i> <p>'To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record' <br>Alfred Kazin <p>'Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art' <br>Curt Leviant, <i>Saturday Review</i></p>