Night
Elie Wiesel • 1960
Devastation Rating
war historical literary fiction trauma loss
Our Take
A boy and his father in the concentration camps, and Wiesel writes the slow extinction of faith and filial love as the same thing. The scene at the hanging — the child who takes too long to die — is the most devastating passage in Holocaust literature. The silence that follows the last page is the right response.
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