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Dawn

By Wiesel, Elie|Frenaye, Frances
Dawn
From the author of "Night," the latest pick by Oprah's Book Club(. Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn. One is a captured English officer. The other is a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner.

Details

Authors: Wiesel, Elie|Frenaye, Frances
Copyright: 1961
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780809037728
ISBN10: 0809037726
Page Count: 96
Dimensions: 5.58x0.28x8.76
Publisher: Hill & Wang

Strand Notes

This short novel, DAWN, the second book of Elie Wiesel's masterful Night trilogy, which begins with the unforgettable memoir Night and concludes with the acclaimed novel Day (previously title The Accident), is a haunting meditation on guilt, moral ambiguity, and the justifications man makes to man for the act of murder. Elisha, a young Jewish Holocaust survivor, now living as a terrorist in British-controlled Palestine, awaits dawn, when he has been ordered to kill a captive English officer. He wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he awaits the appointed hour for his act of assassination. 81p.

Description

Elie Wiesel's Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.

The author . . . has built knowledge into artistic fiction. --The New York Times Book Review

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination.

The basis for the 2014 film of the same name, now available on streaming and home video.

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