num_pages: 328
description: Winner of the Nobel Peace PrizeNight is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short novel Dawn (1960), a young man who has survived World War II and settled in Palestine joins a Jewish underground movement and is commanded to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage. In Day (previously titled The Accident , 1961), Wiesel questions the limits of Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life despite their memories? Wiesel’s trilogy offers insights on mankind’s attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction.A Hill &amp; Wang Teacher's Guide is available for this title. 
language: English
title: Night, Dawn, The Accident, A Trilogy
titlecomplete: Night, Dawn, The Accident, A Trilogy
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, World War II, Holocaust, War, Biography Memoir, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Jewish
ratings_count: 4798
series: The Night Trilogy
publisher: Hill and Wang