Night
by Elie Wisel, 1972 (new translation by Marion Wiesel, 2006), Hill and Wang, a division of Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York
Compelling, horrifying, saddening – one individual’s story of his Holocaust experience. Also, I might add, beautifully written.
Reading this, I can understand why it is so difficult to believe that there exists a living God who loves each and every one of us. How can this ever happen on earth if that were true? Elie Wisel became convinced a benevolent God who answered his prayers did not exist when he witnessed the atrocities being committed by his fellow human beings. This book not only calls us to remember the Holocaust so that it can never be repeated, but it also raises questions as to how God, if he exists as a god who loves us, would ever permit this to happen to anyone.
The prose in this book is so compact and powerful, that it is extremely easy to read. Only the content makes it difficult to get through. After reading it, though, I am grateful to the author for sharing his experience, as painful and difficult as that effort may have been.
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