Day

"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." "--The New York Times Book Review""
The publication of "Day "restores Elie Wiesel’ s original title to the novel initially published in English as "The Accident" and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author’ s classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which includes his memoir "Night" and novel "Dawn," “ In "Night "it is the ‘ I’ who speaks, ” writes Wiesel. “ In the other two, it is the ‘ I’ who listens and questions.”
In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel’ s masterful portrayal of one man’ s exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel’ s narrator. Torn between choosing life or death, "Day" again and again returns to the guiding questions that inform Wiesel’ s trilogy: the meaning and worth of surviving the annihilation of a race, the effects of the Holocaust upon the modern character of the Jewish people, and the loss of one’ s religious faith in the face of mass murder and human extermination.