In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night a scholarly pious teenager is wracked with guilt
at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his
family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable
question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events
to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book which probes life's essential
riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step
in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.
