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I had the privilege of reading a signed first edition of this book passed down from my Dad, and the rich smell, thick pages, and classic hardcover added to the experience of reading this book. The story is dark, and it starts slow. It is mostly composed of dialogue between the son and his father's friends, and some between the son and his father. The dialogue has a haunting quality which led me to wonder what horror was to come. When the mystery is finally revealed it is done delicately, and a n...
Jak se vypořádat s tím, když se dozvíte, o minulosti svých nejbližších. Jak je to se zločinem a hlavně trestem? Kruté čtení. Ale neméně zajímavé byl rozhovor s Arnoštem Lustigem o Ellie Wiezelovi. To celé knize nasadilo další a pro mě dost překvapivý rozměr.
Very thought provoking. The book explores good and evil. Is violence ever justified? It also explores how the parent's past affects the children. I would recommend this book to anyone.
De vijfde zoon by Elie Wiesel
Survivors of terrible trauma can never fully reclaim their lives. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, knew that as well as anyone alive. In this novel atrocities and resulting loss haunt the next generation of survivors. A mother has been driven insane by what she has witnessed. A father can never bring himself to relate the cruel events of the past but that does not stop the determination of his son to know the truth. There is no moment of joy in this tale. Sorrow reverberates down through the y...
I somehow missed the point of all the excellent reviews. The book lost something in translation for me. The story is told from the son's point of view. His parents are holocaust survivors and he is determined to know their history. The story was choppy and the female characters are very undeveloped. There were parts of the book that were enlightening but for the most part it was very hard to read. To me I think that there are better books describing the ghettoes in Poland and the outcome. If you...
I'll always be a little obsessed with Holocaust literature, and this is Wiesel in true form. The novel has a more abstract, dream like quality than Night, but raises important questions about justice and vengeance after suffering. He follows a haunted family dealing with post WWII trauma and the legacy they have been handed through inflicted misery, in a way that few can. I snatched this one up at a library free for all and ripped through it in an afternoon--I am so glad I did!
Bylo to zajímavé, ale poněkud matoucí. Líbil se mi i závěrečný rozhovor.
Horrific and beautiful at the same time.
Surprise! The themes of this 1985 novel is memory, the Holocaust, and silence. A survivor living in NYC has to deal with his son’s curiosity about the war and its aftermath. The survivor, once a scholar, now a librarian and a friend “who deals in shadows” (never explained) get together to debate the use of the death penalty; the father’s other acquaintance helps the son understand his father’s buried past—as a Jewish council chief in a ghetto, as a would-be assassin of the ghetto’s commandant, t...
mi devo ricordare prima o poi di scrivere un commento comparato tra questo libro e il graphic novel Maus, forse Art Spiegelman avrebbe dovuto leggersi questo libro prima di scrivere il suo, per capire come funziona il discorso padre-sopravvisuto e figlio!!
It was a good, emotional, moving story about living without knowing somebody you're suppose to love, either living or dead. I've only read Wiesel's nonfiction stuff before this, so I was a bit worried, but so far, his fiction is good, too.
So good.
Objevila jsem tohoto autora a moc se mi líbí jeho styl psaní.Navíc - kombinace židovských zvyků a vzpomínek na život v polském ghettu je velmi lákavá.Zatím nejsem rozhodně zklamána.DOČTENO!A mohu vřele doporučit. Tolik zvratů, náznakových informací! Kniha vás nutí přemýšlet, spojovat si fakta, předvídat!Paráda.Připojuji tuto knihu k několika, které o válce má smysl přečíst (další jsou Chlapec v pruhovaném pyžamu a Hlava XX).Citát:"V den, kdy k lidské tragédii, jakékoli, přistoupíme jako k obyčej...
A very sad story....although fiction, we know it all happened during WWII....the Holocaust, the killing of six million Jews.This story is about a young man who is the child of Holocaust survivors. His mother is now in a mental clinic and his father won't answer the son's question about what happened during WWII. The father's friends eventually tell him what it was like to be in a village where a Nazi governor ruled all the people choosing when he wanted them killed, sent to a work camp, or to hu...
Interesting read.
In as much as I understood this book I liked it.
This novel speaks of redemption, forgiveness, patience....three things I work on getting better with daily. The prose in which it is written is eloquent and beautiful. The story of disconnect caused by a father's attempt to protect both his children ( one living and one dead) is a very eye opening one. This story leaves so much unsaid yet I felt so much following the words of both father and son. Though the story encompasses more than father and son, every man in this book is the father and the
A thought-provoking read about the lasting effects of tragedy and whether violence is ever justified.I found the format slightly confusing, but overall quite effective.
I think I wasn't able to get into the story completely, probably read to much of it at night, in the end I still wasn't sure who the fifth son is, maybe I'll re-read one day
