All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs [Paperback]

In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the State of Israel, and as a spokesman for humanity.  With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

From the abyss of the death camps Wiesel has come as a messenger to mankind—not with a message of hate and revenge, but with one of brotherhood and atonement.
—From the citation for the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

Childhood, 1

Darkness, 51

God's Suffering: A Commentary, 101

Schooling, 107

Journalist, 159

Traveling, 221

Paris, 245

New York, 279

Writing, 317

Jerusalem, 381


Glossary, 419

Index, 423“This is Elie Wiesel at his best, a highly revealing self-portrait of the man behind the world-famed persona.”
—Herman Woulk

“A biblical-like epic of a great man who has turned genocidal tragedy into a life force for world peace. I should be required reading for membership in the human race.”
—Alan M. Dershowitz

“Immensely moving [and[ unforgettable, [with] the searing intensity of his novels and autobiographical tales . . . Will make you cry, yet somehow leaves you renewed, with a cautious hope for humanity's future.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Wiesel remains unequaled at bringing home the experience of horrific, nullifying disorientation that was the first step in the program of genocide known as the Final Solution.”
—Daphne Merkin, The New York Times Book Review

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