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FICTION

Released: Feb. 19, 2009

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 >

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 >

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 >