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The judges / a novel by Elie Wiesel.
Van Pelt Library PQ2683.I32 J4413 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
- Standardized Title:
- Juges. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 209 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both.
- A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel, a religious teacher who was once a political prisoner; Yoav, a terminally ill Israeli commando; George, an archivist who is hiding a Holocaust secret that could bring down a certain politician; and Bruce, a would-be priest turned philanderer. Their host -- an enigmatic and disquieting man who calls himself simply the Judge -- begins to interrogate them, forcing them to face the truth and meaning of their lives. Soon he announces that one of them -- the least worthy -- will die. The Judges is a powerful novel that reflects the philosophical, religious, and moral questions that are at the heart of Elie Wiesel's work.
- ISBN:
- 0375409092
- OCLC:
- 49285326
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