'NIGHT' by Elie Weisel
I never imagined myself to be hooked to a novel like this...Never thought i had tears left for shedding out. I was completely gripped, completed the book in 5 hours straight and found myself so numb after that. It deserves a special mention...U think u have seen it all, think again!
Night is Elie Wiesel's memoir of his experience as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It starts out with the events leading up to deportation and internment of the Jews of Wiesel's town, and ends a year later with the liberation of Buchenwald (where Wiesel ended the war) by American forces. The book is a grim chronicle of the very worst parts of human nature, all of which we know about intellectually, but here, it's given a human face in the form of fifteen-year-old narrator Eliezer, who changes enormously over the course of the book and this is the thing which fascinated me the most...A complete makeover of your personality.
Morover it teaches what FAITH is all about...what is hope in real world.
"This day I had ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused." This may not make sense as it is but these are the strongest words if you can connect.
Night is certainly as grim as the grimmest fiction I've ever tried to read, but its affect was entirely different. Partly, I think, because it's physically, mercifully, short. The other difference is that it's true. This isn't some author making up depressing material about human cruelty for entertainment purposes; this is something which really happenned. That makes it important, and worth reading through all the misery.
As they say "Truth is stranger than fiction and much bitter".
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