Day

Name: Day
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Elie Wiesel
ISBN: 9781440797316

Author: Elie Wiesel

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 3 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/06/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Jewish Fiction

Synopsis

First published in English under the title The Accident, Elie Wiesel's third novel in his trilogy of Holocaust literature has now adopted Wiesel's original title: Day. In the opening scene, a Holocaust survivor and successful journalist steps off a curb in New York City directly into the pathway of an oncoming cab. As he struggles between life and death, the journalist recalls the effects of the historical tragedy of the Holocaust on himself and his family. Like the memoir Night and the novel Dawn, Wiesel again poses important questions involving the meaning of almost an entire annihilation of a race, loss of faith in the face of mass murder and torture and the aftermath and effects of the Holocaust on individuals and the Jewish people. "Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man."-The New York Times Book Review

About Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) is the author of more than fifty books, including Night, his harrowing account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The book, first published in 1955, was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 2006, and continues to be an important reminder of man's capacity for inhumanity. Wiesel was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and lived with his family in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lola on August 06, 2012

I made the mistake of reading reviews before reading this book ,and I have to say that I am amazed at the number of poor reviews. Day is one of the most eloquently written books I have ever read and to achieve this status with such simple prose in dealing with so many complicated subjects is amazin......more

Goodreads review by William2 on February 09, 2017

This short novel is powerful, at times harrowing. The writing is compressed, the tone conversational. One would not think the language capable of handling so many large themes--God, the Holocaust, Hell, Suffering, Love--that the author freights it with. Yet it is the very lightness of the language t......more

Goodreads review by Chris on January 02, 2022

I didn't "really liked it" as 4 stars by GR is identified, but the sublime writing that can be found throughout this short novel deserves the rating. This small book could probably be read in a day by most in this community. I needed to read slowly and reflect on what I was reading and let some of t......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on March 02, 2012

Elie Wiesel’s Day (once entitled The Accident), the third and final book in his Night trilogy of memoirs, is causing some clenching in my brain. After reading Night some two years ago — which was by far the most resonating and heart-breaking of the three books — my entire mindset concerning the suff......more