Open Heart, Elie Wiesel
Open Heart, Elie Wiesel
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Open Heart
A Memoir

Author: Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Unabridged: 1 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2012

Synopsis

Translated by Marion Wiesel

A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.

Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces and questions flash through his mind. His family before and during the unspeakable Event. The gifts of marriage and children and grandchildren that followed. In his writing, in his teaching, in his public life, has he done enough for memory and the survivors? His ongoing questioning of God—where has it led? Is there hope for mankind? The world’s tireless ambassador of tolerance and justice has given us this luminous account of hope and despair, an exploration of the love, regrets and abiding faith of a remarkable man.

About The Author

Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he was deported to Auschwitz. After the war he became a journalist and writer in Paris, and since then has written more than fifty books, both fiction and nonfiction. His masterwork, Night, was a major best seller when it was republished recently in a new English translation. Wiesel has been awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor’s Grand Cross, an honorary knighthood of the British Empire and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1976 he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Georgia

Many people write. But few would risk as easy and conversational a tone as this man, not with subjects as serious as life and death. He even lets it meander at times - retelling a friend's joke at his bedside after a taxi once hit him - only to return to his heart surgery and own words of wisdom. Pic......more

Goodreads review by Carla

a one sit read. very touching, very inspiring, very sad yet offers hope knowing all that he's been through he's still able to find the light at the end of the tunnel. he does an amazing job of reminding readers of what is really important in life as well as on the operating table. i love this man an......more

Goodreads review by Kim

Elie Wiesel was one of the great heroes of the 20th century! His books have affected and touched so many people and his life has been an influence for good for so many years. He passed away 2 years ago and y’all know I’ve been on a Holocaust literature kick this year. This book is a short and easy r......more

Goodreads review by Dani

Where to begin? Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor who witnessed the death of his farther while in a concentration camp and whose last memory of his mother and baby sister are of Nazi's forcefully separating them from him and his father, has lived a long, pre-holocaust life. The pain of never seeing his......more

Quotes

“A successful husband, father, grandfather, teacher, and writer, [Mr. Wiesel] is an asset to humankind. He has turned despondency into a message of approval and optimism…Mr. Wiesel packages equal parts beauty and astonishing description in an impossibly concise manner. Few authors have possessed such capacity for succinctness and brevity with magnificent dexterity.”
-NY Journal of Books

“An absorbing, clear-eyed reflection on [Wiesel’s] own mortality and a candid account of a life lived…Open Heart is Wiesel at his most vulnerable and his most determined, and his thoughts and ideas have never been so lucidly conveyed.”
-The Rumpus

“The reader…becomes a quiet observer of Wiesel’s thoughts, which are plagued by the question: ‘Am I ready to die?’ His answer, clearly, is no…What seems like a quick and easy read actually delves deeply into the philosophical and makes you wonder:  Will I be ready when it’s my time?”
—The Free Lance-Star

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