Day

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This new edition of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident, introducing a narrator who grapples with the experience of being a Holocaust survivor in a world still fraught with tragedy and naïveté. When he is struck by a taxicab in Times Square, he faces weeks of hospitalization. Having narrowly escaped death once again, he begins to reflect on the most significant relationships of his life, including his current love affair with a w…

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Title Statements

Full title :Day / Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Anne Borchardt.

Summary

This new edition of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident, introducing a narrator who grapples with the experience of being a Holocaust survivor in a world still fraught with tragedy and naïveté. When he is struck by a taxicab in Times Square, he faces weeks of hospitalization. Having narrowly escaped death once again, he begins to reflect on the most significant relationships of his life, including his current love affair with a woman who shares many of his fears. Unfolding in vivid flashbacks, Day illuminates the prism of one survivor's shattered will to live.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1962

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1962

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 109 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780809023097, 0809023091
oclc:ocm62896549
LC Classification:PQ2683.I32
Dewey Decimal:843/.914

Subjects

Accidents -- Fiction Fiction Historical fiction Holocaust survivors Holocaust survivors -- Fiction Jewish fiction Novels Romans Survivants de l'Holocauste -- Romans, n… Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction Traffic accidents -- Fiction