"Night" by Elie Weisel

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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.

My Thoughts:
Though this book was hard to read, and all the more so because I wasn't in the frame of mind to read a depressing book. Elie tells the story so well, you feel as if you are there with him. The violence and cruelty the Jewish suffer is just abominable. It leaves me speechless that there are humans as awful as Hitler still out there today.