NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 1995
"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.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 1999
"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.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 27, 2002
"Human, unpretentious, compelling explorations of what we are, and why."
From the prolific Nobelist, a novel rather artificially constructed--but for the worthy purpose of looking inside to find what meaning life can hold for any of us.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 14, 2003
"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.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 16, 2005
"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.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 16, 2006
"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."
