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Beth
Apr 03, 2017 rated it really liked it
A short, harrowing, unforgettable read. One that you wish was fiction and are sickened every time you realise it isn't.

Night tells the intimate first person account of a young Jewish boy during WWII. We see the horror of not only the concentration camps, but the stifling feeling of impending doom before he and his family are ripped from their homes by the Nazis.

The way the story is told is simple and hauntingly effective; you feel for Eliezer in every word he has written and this is a book I w
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What a completely heartbreaking, Eye opening book.
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