by Elie Wiesel
First published 1987
In "La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour," Elie Wiesel recounts his harrowing experience as a teenager deported to the Nazi death camps. Wiesel's family is forced from their home in Transylvania, packed into cattle cars, and sent to the unimaginable nightmare of Auschwitz. As he fights to endure the unspeakable conditions and witness the systematic murder of his loved ones, Wiesel's faith is tested to its limits. Yet, amid the darkness, a glimmer of hope emerges, driving him to survive and forge a new life in the aftermath of the Holocaust's devastation.
Genres: holocaust, historical-fiction, 20th-century, biography-memoir
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: coming-of-age, survival
Setting: Romania, Sighet, Europe, Poland, Eastern Germany, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Nazi Germany, Weimar, Jerusalem, Hungary, Galacia, Kolomay, Monowitz, Buna, Gleiwitz
Period: 20th century, 1944, 1945, 1941
352 pages · Paperback · Hill and Wang
Content warnings: death, violence