Elie Wiesel

FICTION

Released: Aug. 24, 2012

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 >

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 >

NONFICTION

Released: Dec. 1, 1995

ALL RIVERS RUN TO THE SEA: MEMOIRS

by Elie Wiesel

"And he ceaselessly pricks the conscience of a world that thinks it is possible to have heard "enough" about the Holocaust."

Drenched with sad yearning, yet narrated with simplicity in the limpid singsong that distinguishes his oral as well as written narrative, Wiesel's memoir reveals much, if not enough, about the man whose purpose in life has been to testify to the fate of his people. Read full book review >

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 >

NONFICTION

Released: Dec. 1, 1999

AND THE SEA IS NEVER FULL: MEMOIRS, 1968-

by Elie Wiesel

"He is not always right – but the many times he is make the book worthwhile. (16 pages photos)"

Nobel Prize-winner Wiesel (All Rivers Run to the Sea, 1996, etc.) concludes his memoirs in his characteristically engaging and conversational tone. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Oct. 1, 1991

SAGES AND DREAMERS: HASIDIC, BIBLICAL, AND TALMUDIC PORTRAITS AND LEGENDS

by Elie Wiesel

"Informative and moving: a rich collage."

Reflections by the Nobel-winning philosopher and novelist on the prophets, scribes, and rebbes who comprise the histories and myths of Jewish folklore. Read full book review >

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