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Book Description:
Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn--and for death. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. Elisha's past is the nightmare memory of Nazi death camps. He is the only surviving member of his family. His future is a cherished dream of life in the promised homeland. But at daybreak his present will become the tortured reality of a principled man ordered to commit cold-blooded murder. Resonant with feeling, Dawn is an unforgettable journey into the human heart--and an eloquent statement about the moral basis of the new Israel."
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I have fallen in love with Elie Wiesel's books. Even though I have only read two. Night is one of my all time favorite..this one comes in around the top 50! It amazes me how he can go through traumatic events and write about them with such demeanor. This book takes place in one night and ends at "dawn" which is the pivot point in the novel. I was so stunned at the ending for the simple fact that I thought that it would not end the way that it did. It is really an eye opener to see what the Holocaust and the after effects were like. I think everyone should at least read one Elie Wiesel's novel..they are in my opinion a novel that makes you think!
Sad story - deals with a terrorist conflict about killing innocent people - very easy reading but sad. Read in one sitting
Dawn is an unforgettable journey into the human heart-and an eloquent statement about the moral basis of the new Isreal.
Patty P. (A dark but enlightening view of terrorism from the inside. I'll be thinking about this one for a while.
K H. from CEDAR RAPIDS, IA wrote on 11/1/2006...Not as good as Night, but not bad.
Dawn tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor, who is recruited to a terrorist group in Palestine that is trying to drive out the British in the years after World War II. Elisha is assigned to execute a prisoner in retaliation for the execution of one of his comrades. As he waits through the night for his task at dawn, Elisha struggles with his ghosts.
Sort of like a fairy tale depicting what must have been Wiesel's thought process after leaving Buchenwald. What pain he must carry!
Janice H. from GRANVILLE, OH wrote on 3/14/2006...Pretty unforgettable!
Sabrina G. from HARTFORD CITY, IN wrote on 1/4/2006...Very enlightening story about traditional Jewish morality confronted with the modern world of power politics and murder. Written from a strong ethical viewpoint. Author was a teenager taken from his home to Auschwitz concentration camp and later, Buchenwald.