A Beggar in Jerusalem

A Beggar in Jerusalem - Paperback

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A Beggar in Jerusalem - Paperback

A Beggar in Jerusalem - Paperback

by Elie Wiesel
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by Elie Wiesel (Author)

When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory."

This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.

Author Biography

ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.67 x 8.03 x 5.18 IN
Publication Date: May 27, 1997
ISBN9780805210521
Author Elie Wiesel
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 1997
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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