Twilight is the haunting novel by Nobel Peace prize-winning author Elie Wiesel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric hospital, he is not a patient but rather a visiting professional with a secret, highly personal quest. A Holocaust survivor who has painstakingly rebuilt his life, he has watched, horrified and helpless, as it all started coming apart. He longs for Pedro, the man who rescued him in postwar Poland - who became his mentor, hero, saviour and friend - and taught him truth from falsehood. But Pedro vanished into Stalin's gulags . . . Desperate to explain his own survival, Raphael now seeks among the delusional patients the answers to the mysteries of good, evil and madness. Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.
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Elie Wiesel
Judeu nascido na Romênia e sobrevivente dos campos de concentração nazistas, que recebeu o Nobel da Paz em 1986 pelo conjunto de sua obra de 57 livros, dedicada a resgatar a memória do Holocausto e a defender outros grupos vítimas de perseguições. Seu livro mais conhecido, Noite, publicado em 1955, conta suas memórias e experiências de jovem adolescente judeu ortodoxo durante o Holocausto e seu aprisionamento nos campos de concentração de Auschwitz e Buchenwald. Seus escritos cobrem uma vasta área da literatura, englobando poemas e teologia.
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