“A slim volume of terrifying power.” ―The New York Times

“To the best of my knowledge no one     . . . has left behind him so moving a record.” ―Alfred Kazin, The Reporter

First published in 1958, The Night Trilogy is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. According to Amazon.com, “Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short novel Dawn (1960), a young man who has survived World War II and settled in Palestine joins a Jewish underground movement and is commanded to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage. In Day (previously titled The Accident, 1961), Wiesel questions the limits of conscience: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life despite their memories? Wiesel’s trilogy offers insights on mankind’s attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction. Night is the terrifying record of Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.”