All Rivers Run to the Sea, Elie Wiesel
All Rivers Run to the Sea, Elie Wiesel
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All Rivers Run to the Sea
Memoirs

Author: Elie Wiesel

Narrator: Elie Wiesel

Abridged: 1 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2006

Synopsis

In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the State of Israel, and as a spokesman for humanity.  With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

"From the abyss of the death camps Wiesel has come as a messenger to mankind—not with a message of hate and revenge, but with one of brotherhood and atonement."
—From the citation for the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

About The Author

ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Osborneinri on August 29, 2010

I was fortunate enough to study under Professor Wiesel at Boston University. This memoir includes many of the great stories he told of his childhood and early adulthood as he was starting to become the man who one day won the Nobel Peace Prize. A great teacher and a better man.......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on September 10, 2016

A quick perusal of reviews found either those who generally liked it and said nothing of substance to substantiate why or those who criticized it for its nonlinear narrative and depressive tone. I've found it (at the halfway point) delightful, fair-minded, informative, and while perhaps more philoso......more

Goodreads review by Ian on October 06, 2018

Elie Wiesel tells his life story from the time he was a little boy fascinated by the mysteries of Jewish religion in his small village of Sighet in Ruthenia to becoming a young journalist rebuilding his life in postwar Europe and bearing witness to the horrors and losses of Auschwitz. The first half......more

Goodreads review by Connor on April 22, 2014

The book All Rivers Run to the Sea is Elie Wiesel’s memoir of his life before and after the Holocaust as well as his rise as a self-sufficient and independent character who had to look after himself. The book begins with a quick look into his childhood in Sighet and ends with his marriage to his wif......more

Goodreads review by Linda on February 27, 2022

Mention was made in conversation of Eli Weisel's All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoir so I went to my local library to see if it was still available- I had checked it out twenty-six years ago according to the library card. Definitely worth the second reading. Weisel's memories of his childhood, the Hol......more

Quotes

“This is Elie Wiesel at his best, a highly revealing self-portrait of the man behind the world-famed persona.”
—Herman Woulk

“A biblical-like epic of a great man who has turned genocidal tragedy into a life force for world peace. I should be required reading for membership in the human race.”
—Alan M. Dershowitz

“Immensely moving [and[ unforgettable, [with] the searing intensity of his novels and autobiographical tales . . . Will make you cry, yet somehow leaves you renewed, with a cautious hope for humanity's future.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Wiesel remains unequaled at bringing home the experience of horrific, nullifying disorientation that was the first step in the program of genocide known as the Final Solution.”
—Daphne Merkin, The New York Times Book Review

“Part of the delight of All Rivers lies in witnessing the gradual transformation of the brokenhearted, orphaned young boy into the spirited journalist who longs to embrace the world at large, and who, in time, does.″
—Rebecca Goldstein, Newsday

“Remarkable . . . Wiesel writes with poetic beauty and heart-stopping eloquence.″
—Susan Miron, Miami Herald

“For all those who have never known Elie Wiesel, these memoirs are an introduction to the man, and for many who have met him, there will be discoveries and realizations.″
—Raul Hilberg, Boston Globe

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