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FICTION
Released: Aug. 24, 2012
Kirkus Star HOSTAGE
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson
"Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel continues to remind us of the brilliant possibilities of the philosophical and political novel. "
Wiesel takes us on a journey through dream, memory and especially storytelling in his latest novel, which concerns Shaltiel Feigenberg, who in 1975, is captured and imprisoned for 80 hours in a basement by two captors. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 27, 2010
THE SONDERBERG CASE
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson
"A slim novel that's heavy on philosophy."
The latest from the Nobel Peace Prize–winning author of Night(1960) asks big questions about good and evil, art and reality, yet ultimately finds its narrator concluding, "Suddenly, I don't understand anything anymore. Why life? Why death?" Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2009
Kirkus Star A MAD DESIRE TO DANCE
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson
"Philosophy meets psychology in this profound, often poetic novel."
Interactions between a patient and his therapist elucidate the human condition in the latest from Nobel Prize winner Wiesel (The Time of the Uprooted, 2005, etc.). Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 16, 2006
NIGHT
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
"The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance."
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 16, 2005
Kirkus Star THE TIME OF THE UPROOTED
by Elie Wiesel, translated by David Hapgood
"A humane, optimistic tale most eloquently told."
"Do you know why God created us? So we could tell one another stories." Novelist, memoirist and folklorist Wiesel (Wise Men and Their Tales, 2003, etc.) blends fiction, legend and perhaps reminiscence in a moving tale of a fast-disappearing time. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 14, 2003
Kirkus Star WISE MEN AND THEIR TALES: PORTRAITS OF BIBLICAL, TALMUDIC, AND HASIDIC MASTERS
by Elie Wiesel
"Wiesel proposes few definitive answers--here, the question mark appears as often as the period. But his explorations, drawing on the collective wisdom of prophets, rabbis, and scholars from the earliest days to the present, are endlessly illuminating."
Nobel Prize–winning novelist and memoirist Wiesel (The Judges, 2002, etc.) leads readers on a spirited, sometimes contentious journey through Jewish history and thought. Read full book review >