Night by Elie Wiesel is a heartbreaking testimony of the crimes committed during the Holocaust. Translation: Marion Wiesel, Foreword: Elie Wiesel, Penguin Modern Classics. Born in a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, Elie Wiesel was deported to concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This book records the horrors he suffered, the loss of his family, and his struggle for survival in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity, and faith. Describing the tragic extermination of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is one of the most personal and moving texts about the Holocaust. A chilling examination of the dark side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the 20th century.

Elie Wiesel (1928) was only fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, he studied in Paris and became a journalist. In an interview with the distinguished French writer François Mauriac, he was convinced to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has been translated into more than 30 languages. If you enjoyed Night, you might also be interested in The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

“A slender book of terrifying power” - The New York Times

“No one has left behind him so moving a record” - Alfred Kazin

“Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art” - Curt Leviant, Saturday Review

Pages: 144, Dimensions: 13x13cm