Night

The Holocaust is the defining experience of Nobel laureate, writer, lecturer and activist Elle Wiesel. NIGHT is his harrowing eye-witness account of the horrors he experienced. Rosenblatt has an expressive, unctuous, youthful voice, a great deal of commitment to his text, but, alas, neither taste nor technique. His NIGHT is violent melodrama rendered awkwardly. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

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. D.J.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

The Holocaust is the defining experience of Nobel laureate, writer, lecturer and activist Elie Wiesel. NIGHT is his harrowing eye-witness account of the horrors he experienced. Guidall has an expressive, mellow and mature voice, commitment to his text, and consummate judgment and technique. His NIGHT is heartrending, tragic, compelling, beautiful. He gives us not only events but their profound effect on the sensibility, for good and ill, of a sensitive youth, as viewed in retrospect by his older self. Guidall reveals why this book and its author are so highly regarded. Y.R. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine