For the month of July, Overbooked members gathered to discuss the somber memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. In the book Wiesel recounts the horrific events of his imprisonment in the infamous Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps when he was only fifteen years old. Spanning just a year, Wiesel candidly describes the horrors he bore witness to and the atrocities inflicted upon the Jewish prisoners at the behest of the Nazi regime. The haunting prose as Wiesel writes of his struggles to survive, not only physically but mentally, will leave an indelible mark on any reader.
Members in attendance were unanimous in their opinions of the book. While difficult to read at times, members spoke of the impact of Wiesel's writing when describing imagery that was gruesome but necessary, although never in a gratuitous manner. Wiesel does not censor himself in order to make these events more palatable to readers, and members agreed that doing so would have only minimized them. Members also stated that Wiesel's memoir serves as a reminder of the monstrosities humankind is capable of and is a book everyone should make time to read.
The final average rating was 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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