Most Interesting Books of 2006    

Night

“I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?”

by Elie Wiesel
translated by Marion Wiesel

published by Hill and Wang

Night is the story of Elie Wiesel's teenaged years, where he miraculously survived a Nazi concentration camp during the end of World War II. This is the definitive edition of the book, with a new preface by Wiesel, a foreword by Francois Mauriac, and a new translation by Marion Wiesel the author's wife. This is the book, and these are the words, that this extraordinary man wants his readers to hear. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. His writings transcend the Jewish experience to speak to every human being, in our times, who is oppressed. His works implore us to be more human, to never close our eyes, to always take action wherever injustice strikes.

— Michael Pastore