Day
A Novel
ISBN10: 0809023091
ISBN13: 9780809023097
Trade Paperback
128 Pages
$13.00
CA$17.00
The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author's classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which includes his memoir Night and novel Dawn. "In Night it is the 'I' who speaks," writes Wiesel. "In the other two, it is the 'I' who listens and questions."
Struck and gravely wounded by a cab in Times Square, the novel's anonymous narrator, a Holocaust survivor, begins a profound and painful journey through his past, facing again and again the questions, Is it ever possible for Holocaust survivors to create new lives for themselves without remembering their old ones? A confrontation with the burdens of memory, Day explores a random catastrophe, the temptation of self-destruction, and their connection to the larger tragedy that befell an entire people. A new preface by the author reflects on the enduring questions raised in Day and on the novel's place in this trilogy.
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"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art."—Curt Leviant, Saturday Review
"Wiesel's [books] have marked him as the messenger of the Jewish dead to the living."—Lothar Kahn, Mirrors of the Jewish Mind
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DAY (Begin Reading)
THE ACCIDENT occurred on an evening in July, right in the heart of New York, as Kathleen and I were crossing the street to go to see the movie The Brothers Karamazov.
The heat was heavy, suffocating: it penetrated your...