The Art of Inventing Hope, Howard Reich
The Art of Inventing Hope, Howard Reich
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The Art of Inventing Hope
Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel

Author: Howard Reich

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2019

Synopsis

The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world’s most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel’s life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago, and Florida—and spoke often on the phone—to discuss the subject that linked them: both Wiesel and Reich’s father, Robert Reich, were liberated from Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. What had started as an interview assignment from the Chicago Tribune quickly evolved into a friendship and a partnership. Reich and Wiesel believed their colloquy represented a unique exchange between two generations deeply affected by a cataclysmic event. Wiesel said to Reich, “I’ve never done anything like this before.” Here Wiesel—at the end of his life—looks back on his ideas and writings on the Holocaust, synthesizing them in his conversations with Reich. The insights that Wiesel offered and Reich illuminates can help the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors understand their painful inheritance, while inviting everyone else to partake of Wiesel’s wisdom on life, ethics, and morality.

About Howard Reich

Howard Reich has written for the Chicago Tribune since 1978 and joined the staff in 1983. He is the author of five other books, including Prisoner of Her Past: A Son’s Memoir. Reich has won an Emmy Award, and the Chicago Journalists Association named him Chicago Journalist of the Year in 2011.

About James Anderson Foster

James Anderson Foster, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has narrated audiobooks for a variety of publishers, across nearly all genres, both fiction and nonfiction. In 2015, he was a finalist in three categories for the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Voice Arts Awards—mystery, science fiction, and fantasy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pam on November 02, 2019

The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel is by Howard Reich. This outstanding work will long remain one of my favorite books on Holocaust history. I have long been an admirer of Elie Wiesel and this book just makes that admiration more intense. Howard Reich has let us into......more

Goodreads review by MaryEllen on September 15, 2019

Howard Reich is the art critic for the Chicago Tribune. He is also the son of Holocaust survivors. When his mother begin to show signs of PTSD in her declining years that were mysterious to the author he begin to ask questions about the Holocaust and ended up writing several articles, a documentary,......more

Goodreads review by Liza on September 24, 2019

Incredible. Thought-provoking. Captivating. Important. Timeless. Imagine having the opportunity to sit down and ask Elie Wiesel some of life's toughest question. Not just once, but many times over a four-year period. Howard Reich had that opportunity and he shares those conversations in THE ART OF IN......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on October 10, 2019

Deeply moving examination of the Holocaust through the eyes of an amazing Holocaust survivor and the wonderful author who is the child of Holocaust survivors. It is the culmination of a four-year relationship and friendship that lasted until Wiesel's death. A must-read for anyone wanting to experien......more

Goodreads review by Jason on March 12, 2021

To read Night by Elie Wiesel tells you what he experienced. To read this book tells you how if affected him and how his life has been shaped by it (along with other survivors). A truly fascinating look inside the effects of the Holocaust. These books have made me think a lot more about injustice and......more

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“The Art of Inventing Hope can help us remember, learn from, and perhaps argue with the world’s most revered Holocaust survivor and enlist him in living our lives.”

Jerusalem Post

“Wiesel’s words through The Art of Inventing Hope might be viewed as coming from the grave. But as Reich presented him, he is living and breathing and just as relevant now as when he spoke them into Reich’s tape recorder.”

Chicago Jewish News

“James Foster’s narration of this audiobook is a good match of text and voice…Foster narrates with restrained passion that evokes the tone of the author. His pacing is a bit quick at times but always easy to understand. His enunciation is clear, and his overall performance makes a deep impression on the listener.”

AudioFile

“[A] brief but moving work…Reich does an admirable job of complementing his subject’s sage words with his own perspective without in any way detracting or distracting from it—no easy task yet one the author accomplishes with aplomb.”

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Howard Reich utilizes his considerable journalistic talents and unique perspective as a second-generation Holocaust survivor to elicit powerful insights from Elie Wiesel. This book will play an important role in making the Holocaust relevant to future generations.”

Marion Blumenthal Lazan, coauthor of Four Perfect Pebbles

“In his struggle to understand his parents’ unimaginable and unspoken past, Howard Reich finds answers in these powerful conversations with Elie Wiesel…Reich’s own poignant narrative is as compelling as the advice Wiesel offers, and in the end it is so satisfying to see how these two brilliant minds find solace through words and through love.”

Mary Morris, author of Gateway to the Moon

“How does one survive the horrors of the Holocaust? Wiesel helps Reich to discover that in shared memory there is hope.”

Sheila Nevins, author of You Don’t Look Your Age … And Other Faulty Fairy Tales

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