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Synopsis
This volume of memoirs covers the years from Wiesel's childhood in Sighet, Transylvania to his marriage in 1969, with an emphasis on the lovers and friends who have enriched his life.
| Size | | Length: | 432 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 2.0 in | | Weight: | 28.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Last night I saw my father in a dream. His unshaven face was the same as ever, its expression frozen, but his clothing changed from moment to moment--from his Shabbat suit to the striped rags of the damned and back again. Where had he come form? From what landscape had he escaped? Who sent him? I can't recall if I asked. All I remember is how sad he looked, and how resigned. I could see by the way his lips were moving that he wanted to tell me something, but no sound came. Then all at once, in my sleep--or was it in his?--I suddenly doubted my own senses. Was this really my father? I was no longer sure."
Industry Reviews
"A new richness of emotional detail.... 'All Rivers' [is composed of] forceful and impassioned narratives that possess the subterranean power of parable, narratives that open out into a commentary on the world, even as they relate the particulars of Mr. Wiesel's own life."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
"Wiesel, spokesman for the departed, never claimed answers. Still, he has not stopped seeking them.... Illuminated as it is by acute memory, steeped in history, religion and mysticism, at once dripping with painful irony and shimmering with humanity, 'All Rivers Run to the Sea' is a profound treasure."
Philadelphia Inquirer - David Lee Preston (12/03/1995)
"It is undoubtedly a sign of Mr. Wiesel's canny elusiveness that he has chosen to protect himself from too close a personal scrutiny, either his own or others'.... 'All Rivers Run to the Sea' suggests that its author prefers to leave an informed assessment of his accomplishments and character not to human judgment but to the God whose existence he has never ceased believing in."
New York Times Book Review - Daphne Merkin (12/17/1995)
"'All Rivers Run to the Sea' is, absent the little touches of perverse humanity that bring autobiographies to life, an oddly impersonal book, but it is also a book with a certain schematic logic. It tells the story of how one Jewish mystic emerged from the death camps with a vision that transformed the way we think about the Holocaust today."
New York - Judith Shulevitz (12/11/1995)
"Through it all Wiesel testifies vividly indeed to Jewish history: the birth of Israel, the Six-Day War, the capture of Jerusalem. And he ceaselessly pricks the conscience of a world that thinks it is possible to have heard "enough" about the Holocaust."
Hopper
Nobel laureate Wiesel is the collective consciousness of the Holocaust, the premier voice of moral rectitude concerning the treatment of Jews in the twentieth century. With an expected poignancy and deft expressiveness and a commendable avoidance of selfrighteousness, he turns now to memoir writing. . . . Journalism was an easy segue into bookwriting, and his latest one will be a source of supreme pleasure for his widespread readership. <BR>Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Booklist - Brad Hopper
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