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    Audiobook3 hours

    Day

    Written by Elie Wiesel

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    About this audiobook

    First published in English under the title The Accident, Elie Wiesel's third novel in his trilogy of Holocaust literature has now adopted Wiesel's original title: Day. In the opening scene, a Holocaust survivor and successful journalist steps off a curb in New York City directly into the pathway of an oncoming cab. As he struggles between life and death, the journalist recalls the effects of the historical tragedy of the Holocaust on himself and his family. Like the memoir Night and the novel Dawn, Wiesel again poses important questions involving the meaning of almost an entire annihilation of a race, loss of faith in the face of mass murder and torture and the aftermath and effects of the Holocaust on individuals and the Jewish people. "Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man."-The New York Times Book Review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 6, 2008
    ISBN9781440797316
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    Elie Wiesel

    Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania. During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration camps, where his parents and younger sister perished. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. Liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 by advancing Allied troops, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist. In 1958, he published his first book, La Nuit, a memoir of his experiences in the concentration camps. He has since authored nearly thirty books, some of which use these events as their basic material. In his many lectures, Wiesel has concerned himself with the situation of the Jews and other groups who have suffered persecution and death because of their religion, race or national origin. He has been outspoken on the plight of Soviet Jewry, on Ethiopian Jewry and on behalf of the State of Israel today. Wiesel made his home in New York City, and became a United States citizen. He was a visiting scholar at Yale University, a Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the City College of New York, and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University where he taught 'Literature of Memory.' Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council from 1980 - 1986, Wiesel served on numerous boards of trustees and advisors. He died in 2016.

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    • 3/5
      Not as good of a read as Dawn, but a necessary part of the trilogy.
    • 3/5
      I like the books in this trilogy less and less as I go on. Night absolutely destroyed me while reading it but this book just did not resonate with me in the same way. While I’m happy to have read all the books in this trilogy, I’m not sure if I will read anymore works by this author in the future.
    • 3/5
      Ergreifend beschreibt Elie Wiesel in diesem Buch, wie es wahrscheinlich vielen Überlebenden des Holocaust ergangenen ist. Es geht um das Leben und das Sterben, um Schuld, Erinnerungen und den darin liegenden Schmerz.
    • 5/5
      Love this book every sentence every page guarded a deeper meaning
    • 4/5
      I recall this novel being vivid; not refracted through memory or parable. The couple in the novel went to see the film adaptation of Brothers Karamzaov. That's odd to recall those detail after 18 years.
    • 4/5
      I felt like this novel was about life and happiness rather than death and despair, but that really depends on how you choose to focus on it. The preface poses an important question about the will to live and how we perceive life after experiencing death. I think Day was a great complement to Night and would recommend it to anybody that enjoyed Night.
    • 3/5
      Day was a dark exploration about the guilt that those who survived the Holocaust experience. It was a fictional account of a man who is hit by a cab and seriously wounded. While he is in the hospital, the reader finds out about his past and his present. This man seems to be existing but not truly capable of experiencing life. In the end, I am left with a lot of questions. Will he begin to live again? Will he truly allow another human to enter his life? Will he stay with Kathleen? Will his past continue to prevent his future?
    • 4/5
      You could tell Wiesel was definitely the author of this work, it didn't strike me with the raw emotions Night had. I know the content was completely different, but I couldn't connect with the characters in the same way. It was still well written and I'm glad I read it. Would read again. 4 out of 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      This short novel is powerful, at times harrowing. The writing is compressed, the tone conversational. One would not think the language capable of handling so many large themes--God, the Holocaust, Hell, Suffering, Love--that the author freights it with. Yet it is the very lightness of the language that buoys the subject matter. There is even a touch of humor, albeit of a very black gallows variety. The writing is deft. It possesses a wonderful contiguity, a narrative cohesion as the incidents unfold. It is Wiesel's second novel and a translation from the French. The narrator, a Holocaust survivor, is in wrenching pain, both physical and emotional. He cannot let go of the past with its many dead. At any other time he would probably be a morose and dull fellow, but when he steps off a curb in Times Square and is struck by a cab his painful emotional life is brought to the fore. The accident is a nasty one. This febrile, near-death experience reanimates his sense of personal loss. This is essentially a philosophical novel, but so nicely undergirded with action that the reader is never adrift in abstractions. Eliezer, the narrator, cannot let go of his anger and despair. He was raised with a strong belief in God which his experience in the camps has annihilated. Kathleen, raised in affluence in the US, is his lover who, like Eliezer, but for different reasons, cannot wrap her mind around "the event." Both are sufferers of what psychologists would call survivor guilt. Don't let this crude partial summary I'm providing here put you off. The writing is nuanced, beautiful, and to use a phrase by Anthony Burgess "almost unbearably moving." Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Deep, very and takes unexpected turns, down some dark alleys of the Second World War.
    • 4/5
      A strong - but very sad - ending of Wiesels trilogy (Night, Dawn, Day). A Holocaust-survivor reflects about his life as he is in the hospital trying to recover from a car-accident that nearly killed him. Three persons try to help him - a doctor, his fiance/lover/friend and a hungarian painter. And we get glimpses of his past experiences/memories/dreams. He reflects about life and death, the distant silent God, his inability to love, his desire to die, the emptiness of life - his soul died in the nazi-camps - is it at all possible for him to return to life and to love again? The question is a hard one, and by the end of the book there is mostly despair - the tears in the end...a lament? A turning point?
    • 4/5
      Could I have found meaning in my life as a survivor of the Holocaust? More and more I have to wonder. "The Accident" makes me wonder what I would need to live again after such horrors. Very moving.
    • 1/5
      I Didn't like his writing style to begin with in Night, yet it still was a good book. Then he tries fiction and really takes the cake with failure. I just didn't think Weisel really knew what to write when he put this book together. He tries to repeat lines to make it seem enforcing, but only comes off trying to make a another book with tons of filler. I know I use to write like him in 6th grade. He's not an author in my view, but a raconteur of past experiences. That is why this book fails in its attempt at provoking any kind of realism or manifest emotions.
    • 2/5
      The worst book in the trilogy. No need to rehash how much I disliked it, or its predecessor.He could have done better. However I plan to re-read it, eventually.