Dawn
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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel's Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings. "The author . . . has built knowledge into artistic fiction." —The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. The basis for the 2014 film of the same name, now available on streaming and home video.
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Author
Elie Wiesel
Pages
96
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date
2006-03-21
ISBN
1466821167 9781466821163
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"Ok...so I thought this was going to be a continuing of His memoir Night. Night was EXCELLENT, but it ended rather suddenly and you have no idea what happened after his liberation, so I was looking forward to this next book. <br/><br/>Dawn is actually a fictional story that he wrote and I'm sorry to say I hated it....it was awful. Which is disappointing. I don't raye many books only 1 star.....but here it is."
"The first book Night was good but this book and the next are not that great "
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