The Testament: A Novel

by Elie Wiesel

2021-01-08 05:31:18

On August 12, 1952, Russia''s greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In this remarkable blend of history and imagination, Paltiel Kossover meets the same fate but, unlike his real-life counterparts, he is permitted to leave a writt... Read more
On August 12, 1952, Russia''s greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In this remarkable blend of history and imagination, Paltiel Kossover meets the same fate but, unlike his real-life counterparts, he is permitted to leave a written testament. From a Jewish boyhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, Paltiel traveled down a road that embraced Communism, only to return to Russia and discover a Communist Party that had become his mortal enemy. Two decades later, Paltiel''s son, Grisha, reads this precious record of his father''s life and finds that it illuminates the shadowed planes of his own.
        
Passionate and fierce, this story of a father''s legacy to his son revisits some of the most dramatic events of our century, and confirms yet again Elie Wiesel''s stature as "a writer of the highest moral imagination" (San Francisco Chronicle). Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.75 in
Print pages352
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date April 27, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780805211153
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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