Town Beyond the Wall
“God-tormented, God-intoxicated,The Town Beyond the Wallis a fiction which refuses to be a novel in any usual sense. It is an exemplary tale such as people may in terror and in hope tell one another. It is a legend—archaic, modern, timeless—of an ascent from purgatory to possibility.”—Newsweek “Elie Wiesel does not describe, he casts a spell. His imagination is in a state of trance. His words are a voice crying in the hideousness of our time.”—Abraham Joshua Heschel “Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man.”—The New York Review of Books--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.