The Oath Author:Elie Wisel tells the haunting story ofa little east european town, obliterated in a pogrom and its sole survivor Azriel. Like all the other townspeople, he took the oath of silence, never to speak of the town's last days and nights of terror. Now, decades later, he roams the searching for someone who will release him from this oath. And when he meets a you... more »ng man bent on suicide, his terrible burden of silence is broken, as his loyalty to the dead becomes another man's reason to go on living.« less