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Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Rarely has a such a short novel made me think as much as this one, usually its the 500 page sledgehammer that creeps into your dreams as you absorb it over a few weeks, in barely 80 pages Elie Wiesel burrows into the subconcious,into the darkest part of the soul.
The setting is Palestine, 1947ish, the brits are still running the mandate. Palestine is home to thousands of holocaust survivors from all over Europe,desperate people who have seen death and the lowest points of the human experience. Cultured souls from the Jewish disapora, who have seen their pre-war world shattered, they fight for what they believe. A young fighter has been asked to execute a british soldier.....he will have to kill him at dawn...
Wiesel looks hard at the mindset of the group of young Jewish fighters against british occupation gathered in a house near Tel Aviv, their motivations for the violence they are inflicting on the occupiers.
Try to picture these young,idealistic ruthless fighters, then compare them to the Palestinians of today, the idealistic,ruthless Hamas fighters in Gaza....there isnt much difference at all.
This is certainly a bleak novel. Wiesel survived the death camps as a teenager, he saw hell on earth, this novel is set far from Europe but the hell of the camps is in every sentence....unspoken.
The setting is Palestine, 1947ish, the brits are still running the mandate. Palestine is home to thousands of holocaust survivors from all over Europe,desperate people who have seen death and the lowest points of the human experience. Cultured souls from the Jewish disapora, who have seen their pre-war world shattered, they fight for what they believe. A young fighter has been asked to execute a british soldier.....he will have to kill him at dawn...
Wiesel looks hard at the mindset of the group of young Jewish fighters against british occupation gathered in a house near Tel Aviv, their motivations for the violence they are inflicting on the occupiers.
Try to picture these young,idealistic ruthless fighters, then compare them to the Palestinians of today, the idealistic,ruthless Hamas fighters in Gaza....there isnt much difference at all.
This is certainly a bleak novel. Wiesel survived the death camps as a teenager, he saw hell on earth, this novel is set far from Europe but the hell of the camps is in every sentence....unspoken.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Excellent thinking book & totally different from Night
30 April 2008
Format:Paperback
First off, this is not Night 2. I naively expected that when publisher's try to frame them as part of a 'trilogy'. Night is absolutely and without bar one of the most fantastic books I have read in my life.
This is not just another chapter of that. And it is not a sequel. It is an incredibly profound, and beautifully written meditation on the journey of many Holocaust survivors -- but not his. This is a work of complete fiction. Many survivors went to Palestine, and fought the British (not the Arabs) to kick them out and thus be able to establish a free Jewish state.
It is the story of a fictional Elishah (who has remarkably similar childhood and Holocaust experiences to those of Wiesel) who becomes one of these freedom fighters, and is ordered to execute a British officer in retaliation for their hanging one of the rebels. It is an account of the night that Elishah passes, knowing he has to become a murderer in the morning, and all of his internal struggles with that. In a particularly powerful lead up to the end, he realizes the power of hatred, how without hatred, terrorist groups like theirs, and indeed any violence against others is almost impossible. He notes how nations are so adept at teaching their people to hate, and even comes to the point of trying to make himself hate this stranger in order to be able to follow his orders.
EXTREMELY powerful and evocative.
One word of caution -- there is almost no action here. This is a thinking book. If you are not up to the mental effort to think and feel along with him, you will not like it.
This is not just another chapter of that. And it is not a sequel. It is an incredibly profound, and beautifully written meditation on the journey of many Holocaust survivors -- but not his. This is a work of complete fiction. Many survivors went to Palestine, and fought the British (not the Arabs) to kick them out and thus be able to establish a free Jewish state.
It is the story of a fictional Elishah (who has remarkably similar childhood and Holocaust experiences to those of Wiesel) who becomes one of these freedom fighters, and is ordered to execute a British officer in retaliation for their hanging one of the rebels. It is an account of the night that Elishah passes, knowing he has to become a murderer in the morning, and all of his internal struggles with that. In a particularly powerful lead up to the end, he realizes the power of hatred, how without hatred, terrorist groups like theirs, and indeed any violence against others is almost impossible. He notes how nations are so adept at teaching their people to hate, and even comes to the point of trying to make himself hate this stranger in order to be able to follow his orders.
EXTREMELY powerful and evocative.
One word of caution -- there is almost no action here. This is a thinking book. If you are not up to the mental effort to think and feel along with him, you will not like it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Angsty and intense
18 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback
Very well written...almost Dostoevskian, with a similar sort of religious existentialism. Wiesel makes the best argument I've ever heard for the so-called "cycle of violence"---but unfortunately, it's equivocal. The plot involves a distinction between cold-blooded acts of violence and those committed in the heat of the moment, but the theme depends on ignoring not only this distinction but any distinctions among any uses of force whatsoever (most significantly between an aggressor's initiation of force and the victim's retaliatory use of force in self-defense). Still, the story is very suspenseful and makes an excellent read. Three and a half stars.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great Book/Great Author!
20 Oct 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bought this for my husband. He has read all of Wiesel's books. They are all gut wrenchingly real. You will enjoy this book. A definite read!
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