Night

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night. This definitive edition features a new translation from the original French by Wiesel's wife and frequent translator, Marion Wiesel.

Night is an unmistakably autobiographical account of the author's own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany's death camps. Told through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet unfolds with a heart-wrenching inevitability. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible truth sink in.

Recounting the evils at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel's enduring classic of Holocaust literature raises questions of continuing significance for all future generations: How could man commit these horrors, and could such an evil ever be repeated?

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©1972, 1985 Elie Wiesel
Originally published in 1958 by Les Editions de Minuit
Translation 2006 by Marion Wiesel
Preface to the New Translation 2006 Elie Wiesel
(P)2006 Recorded Books LLC

Critic reviews

"Elie Wiesel’s memoir of life in the Nazi death camps has been reissued with a new translation by Wiesel’s wife, Marion. Read by George Guidall, this new edition is a brilliant and haunting reminder of these horrific crimes, as well as a testament to Wiesel’s faith and resilience. Guidall is the ideal reader, and gives yet another masterful performance. Every word Guidall utters reminds the listener of the fear, the suffering, and the hatred Wiesel witnessed and experienced as he drew upon his every instinct to fight for survival. The audio edition also contains a new preface by Wiesel, as well as Guidall’s performance of Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. NIGHT is already a classic, and this audio edition is a superb complement to the text. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award." (AudioFile magazine)

"[A] slim volume of terrifying power." (The New York Times)

Couldn't finish because of the narrator

I loved Guidall in Don Duixote, but his Spanish accent is not a good fit for this book. Where you'd expect an accent like the Author... Eli Wiesel. I hope to listen to this book as read by someone else.

Heart Wrenching

this is an intense story of pain that is extremely hard to out down.

A haunting masterpiece

It’s short and an absolute must-read. Wiesel’s story is shifts effortlessly between haunting, moving, thoughtful, and poetic. His words and experiences are no less important now than they were 60 years ago.

History's shame

This book is a great testimony to the shame of the holicost. We should all be astonished, embarrassed, and ashamed determined never to allow this to happen again. Book is a wellwritten biography that I wouldvrecommend all read.

Unforgettable Story

This is a story everyone should hear. It was incredibly courageous for the author to revisit all of these events and share them with us.

Speechless

I have nothing to say. I am left speechless by this brilliant, terrifying, heart breaking memoir.

It took so long....

Absolutely amazing, touching, poignant- I cried real tears and felt raw emotion........ I don’t know why it took so long for me to listen (read).

should have been longer

I loved this book, however the author didn't mention anything about his mom during his imprisonment. whatever happened to her.

Exceptional, Distinguished

What can I say. It is just past three in the morning and I have just finished hearing Elie Wiesel's "Night". It was perfectly narrated by George Guidall.
I grew up reading Anne Frank's hugely important diary thanks to my mother's social conscience, in 1962. Like many of us, I have read and watched WWII unfold for all the years since then. However, inexplicably, I have been unacquainted with this work. I am glad to have made its acquaintance now. And glad it is on school curricula, hopeful it will be always, and consider education about the early warning signs of The Holocaust to be essential for staving off another holocaust. Hopefully.
Thank you to all who made this book available to this member of the public.

Never Forget

It wasn’t that long when the whole World plummeted into madness. Night MUST remain a required reading at school and for adults to keep the history from repeating itself. One tragic parallel is that the liberating Russian army had many soldiers who were pulled from and later returned to GULAGS. The experiences in those horrific places were little different from those described in the Night. Anyone who expresses doubts about the Holocaust, Stalin’s and Hitler’s atrocities, apartheid regime and other such pages in human history should not be allowed to persist in their ignorance. Keeping silent when they spew this ignorance makes the listener their accomplice, worse - their validator.