The Town Beyond the Wall Paperback by Elie Wiesel

Product Details

• Publisher: Schocken (1995-05-16)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780805210453
• Item Weight: 200.07 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.08 x 1.35 cm

Michael—a young man in his thirties, a concentration camp survivor—makes the difficult trip behind the Iron Curtain to the town of his birth in Hungary. He returns to find and confront “the face in the window”—the real and symbolic faces of all those who stood by and never interfered when the Jews of his town were deported. In an ironic turn of events, he is arrested and imprisoned by secret police as a foreign agent. Here he must confront his own links to humanity in a world still resistant to the lessons of the Holocaust.

About the Author

ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.