The fifth son
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Marion Wiesel.
Publisher: Summit Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Children of Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.; Americans -- Germany -- Fiction.; Germany -- Fiction.
Other titles: 5th son.
Description: When a Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, the son also discovers that the Nazi is still alive. What begins as a quest for his father's love becomes a reenactment of the past, as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.
Notes: Translation of: Le cinquième fils.