Night

Night

Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father-child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver. "If only I could get rid of this dead weight Immediately I felt ashamed...
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quick facts
Author:Elie Wiesel
Genre:Fiction, Autobiography, Biography, Children's literature, Novel, Memoir
Number of editions:56

Honors and Awards

YearAward Won
2006 Oprah's Book Club
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Author of Night

Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Age:83
Birthplace:Sighetu Marmaţiei
Education:University of Paris

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps....
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Additional works by Elie Wiesel
BookCopyright DateGenre
The Oath 2002 Novel
Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea Autobiography
The Gates of the Forest Fiction
The Forgotten Fiction
Twilight Fiction
Contre la mélancolie
The judges Fiction
The trial of God
Wise Men and Their Tales Biography
Ethics and memory =
Legends of our time
Day Fiction
After the Darkness 1996 Speculative fiction
Le mendiant de Jérusalem
Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Somewhere a Master Biography
Telling the Tale Autobiography
Die Nacht. Erinnerung und Zeugnis.
Célébrations
The Night Trilogy Biography
The fifth son
The testament Fiction
From the kingdom of memory
The Town Beyond the Wall Fiction
Memoirs September 1991
Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649
Célébration hassidique
King Solomon and his magic ring
Conversations with Elie Wiesel
A Jew today
Messengers of God
The Jews of silence
A Beggar in Jerusalem Fiction
And the sea is never full
Célébration hassidique
Célébration prophétique
Night, Dawn, the Accident Fiction
L'Oublié
La nuit
The time of the uprooted Fiction
L' oublié
Tous les fleuves vont à la mer
Evil and exile
Le Golem
Un Juif aujourd'hui
Paroles d'étranger
Passover Haggadah
Souls on fire
Les Portes de la forêt
serment de Kolvillàg
Entre deux soleils
Contra La Melancolia
Juifs du silence
La Haggadah de Pâque
Splinters
Un di ṿelt hoṭ geshṿign
aube
El Olvidado
ebrei del silenzio
Images from the Bible
journey of faith
Un di velt hot geshvign
Zalmen or the Madness of God
Der fünfte Sohn. Roman
Der Vergessene. Roman
Discours d'Oslo
Elie Wiesel
Chassidismus - ein Fest für das Leben. Legenden und Porträts
The dark side of peace?
Gesang der Toten
Lailah
Nuit
Les juifs du silence
D'où viens-tu ?
Five Biblical portraits
Zalmen Madness of God
Silences et mémoire d'hommes
juges
Todos Los Torrentes Van a la Mar
Die Richter
Zavet
Le Temps des déracinés
Le Golem raconté par Elie Wiesel
L'Aube
Nochʹ. Rassvet. Denʹ
mal et l'exil
Hanukkah Lights
six days of destruction
Geschichten gegen die Melancholie. Die Weisheit der chassidischen Meister
Signes d'exode
Le Jour
crépuscule, au loin
Le Chant des morts
Ethical issues for today
La Ville de la chance
Schweigen ist unmöglich
Yehude ha-demamah
Et la mer n'est pas remplie
Against Silence
Dawn
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Characters in Night

Moshe the Beadle
Moshe the Beadle

Moshe the Beadle is a fictional character from Night.

Eliezer
Eliezer

Eliezer is a fictional character from Night.

Series containing Night

The Night Trilogy
The Night Trilogy
Books in this series
BookGenre
Night Fiction
Dawn
Day
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Literary Genres

Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Autobiography
Autobiography

"If you like autobiographies, as I do, then you will be pleased to know that this one actually is an auto-biography. It has been written entirely by...
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Biography
Biography

A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. It entails more than basic facts , a biography also portrays a subject's...
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Children's literature
Children's literature

Children's literature as such probably started in the 17th century; it is generally believed that before then books were written mainly for adults....
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Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    "Night" is in what genre?
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    The book is labeled as- Fiction, Autobiography, Biography and Children's literature.
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    How long is the book: "Night"?
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    The book is 109 pages.
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    The book, "Night" covers which subjects?
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    "Night" is of the category: History, Modern history, 20th century, World War II and Asia

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