From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

by Elie Wiesel

2021-01-03 06:47:46

In this "powerful" (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by "one of the great writers of our generation" (New Republic), Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his strugg... Read more
In this "powerful" (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by "one of the great writers of our generation" (New Republic), Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemetery, and the speech he gave in Oslo in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, in which he voices his hope that "the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil." Less

Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.41 X 0.7 in
Print pages256
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date January 31, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780805210200
Author
Elie Wiesel (Sep 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French an...

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