A mad desire to dance
Subtitle: a novel
By: Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
Contributors: Temerson, Catherine.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780307266507
Work titles: Désir fou de danser.
Description: Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.