ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.
"A book of shattering force that offers a message of urgency to a
world under the spell of trivia and the tyranny of
amnesia."—Chicago Tribune Book World
"A masterful storyteller . . . Wiesel creates a kaleidoscope of
images that raise tantalizing questions."
—The Boston Globe
“From the abyss of the death camps he has come as a messenger to
mankind—not with a message of hate and revenge, but with one of
brotherhood and atonement.”
—From the Citation for the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
“Wiesel uses words to craft literary monuments, works that stand as
acts of remembrance and as meditations on the nature of remembrance
itself.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Unquestionably, Wiesel is one of the most admirable, indeed
indispensable, human beings now writing.”
—The Washington Post
“Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman
for man.”
—The New York Review of Books
This novel of the memories of a Holocaust survivor adds substantially to Wiesel's collection of more than 30 works--including essays, plays, cantatas, and novels--in some way related to the destruction of European Jewry. Wiesel's concise, haunting, stark imagery has earned him the title of literary laureate of the Holocaust. Here, survivor Elhanan Rosenbaum, now living in New York and a distinguished professor with a psychiatric practice, is tragically losing his prodigious memory. While he can still remember, he creates a ``backup'' by bequeathing to his son, Malkiel, his stories of the martyred death of his father in his Carpathian village (for whom his son is named); his teenage stint in the army and his return to a ghetto empty of Jews; his adventures in the underground partisan movement; and his love of Talia, the extraordinary woman who rescued him and who died giving birth to his only son. These searing tales, which spur Malkiel on a search of collective past, succesfully link generations together. Wiesel's substantial readership will appreciate the introspection and search for truth in this new work. Recommended for all libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/91.-- Molly Abram owitz, Silver Spring, Md.
"A book of shattering force that offers a message of urgency to a
world under the spell of trivia and the tyranny of
amnesia."-Chicago Tribune Book World
"A masterful storyteller . . . Wiesel creates a kaleidoscope of
images that raise tantalizing questions."
-The Boston Globe
"From the abyss of the death camps he has come as a messenger to
mankind-not with a message of hate and revenge, but with one of
brotherhood and atonement."
-From the Citation for the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
"Wiesel uses words to craft literary monuments, works that stand as
acts of remembrance and as meditations on the nature of remembrance
itself."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"Unquestionably, Wiesel is one of the most admirable, indeed
indispensable, human beings now writing."
-The Washington Post
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman
for man."
-The New York Review of Books
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