num_pages: 120
description: A young journalist steps off a curb and into the path of a speeding taxicab. Is it an accident? Or has a tormented past driven Eliezer, a German death camp survivor, to attempt suicide? Gravely injured, torn between choosing life and death, Eliezer relives the horrors of Auschwitz, remembers the tragedy of a child forced into prostitution by the Nazis, and puzzles over his passionate affair with a beautiful woman he cannot love. Told with the true voice of a witness, The Accident portrays one man's quest to understand the catastrophe that befell him, his family, and his people.
language: English
title: The Accident
titlecomplete: The Accident
characters: Dr. Paul Russel, Eliezer
genres: Fiction, Holocaust, Classics, World War II, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Jewish, Audiobook
ratings_count: 11735
series: The Night Trilogy
publisher: Bantam