Thursday, June 14, 2007
Night, by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel’s Night was a hard book to read. I got the book for my birthday, but put off reading it for a few months because reading anything about the Holocaust tends to give me recurring nightmares, but that’s a whole other story. The book was an extremely powerful read - I read it sometime in March but couldn’t review it till now. The seemingly sparse style is actually quite packed with detail; a single sentence says as much as another author might say in an entire paragraph. So this slim volume of about 120 pages packs a huge emotional whollop. And yes, recurring nightmares ensued for about a month. But it was worth it.