Night
1955 • 126 pages

Ratings398

Average rating4.3

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Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his childhood experiences in a Hungarian ghetto and the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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3 primary books

The Night Trilogy

The Night Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1955 with contributions by Elie Wiesel.

Night
Dawn
Day

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A very moving and respectful account regarding Holocaust. Heartbreaking.

January 4, 2022

Must-read Holocaust literature. I finally picked it up shortly after Elie Wiesel's death. I regret not reading it when I was younger.

September 8, 2016

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Analyzing this book for school was very insightful, and was a great pace. Not my favorite but gets 5 stars because of how well it was written

May 22, 2021

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