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Dawn
Contributor(s): Wiesel, Elie (Author), Frenaye, Frances (Translator)

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ISBN: 0809037726     ISBN-13: 9780809037728
Publisher: Hill & Wang
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2006
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Jewish
- Fiction | Family Life - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2006041063
Lexile Measure: 740(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.58" W x 8.76" L (0.21 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 16709
Reading Level: 5.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 4.0
 
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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. Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.


Contributor Bio(s): Wiesel, Elie: - Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) is the author of more than fifty books, including Night, his harrowing account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The book, first published in 1955, was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 2006, and continues to be an important reminder of man's capacity for inhumanity. Wiesel was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and lived with his family in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
 
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