A Beggar in Jerusalem

This is really 4.5 stars. I've never read anything by Wiesel other than Night, but I really enjoy his writing. This book reminds me of Paulo Coelho but with depth. I love Coelho, but there are no hidden messages--whatever he's intending comes clearly across to the reader. But this story, which is sp......more

I've been impressed by Twilight and also by Souls on Fire (despite giving the latter a low rating). The fragmentary, dream-like structure of this book never quite gelled for me. The actual battle scenes, snippets as they are, recording the events of the Six Day War were cohesive, lucid and tersely p......more

I really enjoyed this book. At the start it was a bit difficult to adjust myself to the almost hallucinatory unreality of the setting and characters. The narrator, while not entirely unreliable, is at sometimes one thing, sometimes another. But once the internal logic of the book is absorbed, it com......more

This takes place after the Six Day War ends when a holocaust survivor visits Israel and and goes to Jerusalem where he meets others at the Wailing Wall. They tell him of their hopes and dreams for the future. A haunting emotional novel.......more

This is a pretty dark book. Now I understand what he’s writing about and since it has been a long time since I read one of his books I have read more of my history and I understand it more. I have always found his books to be confusing in some regard because it seems as if he writes in the past and......more