All Rivers Run to the Sea (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Autobiography/History/Current Affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, World War II, Spiritual life or spirituality, Jews or Jewish life, Ethics, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Genocide
Born in Eastern Europe in 1928, a shy, religious Jewish boy survived the Holocaust and went on to become an acclaimed author, a charismatic speaker, and a dedicated humanitarian. In 1986, he received the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the world’s highest honors. This book, the first of two projected volumes, is distinctive not only because Wiesel recalls extraordinary encounters and remembers striking names and faces, but especially because it shows how his remarkable moral and spiritual outlook emerged from the twentieth century’s greatest darkness.
Wiesel’s memoirs are not...
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