Night is by Elie Weisel. It is an autobiographical description of his experience from the time he was evacuated from his home in Czechoslovakia until he was liberated by the Allies from Buchenwald. He describes the process of evacuation, the trip by train to the concentration camp, his experiences immediately upon arriving at the camp, his experiences for the next part of about a year - a little over a year.

This is a book that has been in the back of my mind, it was a possibility - I could have read this with students in high school, but I never did. I was busy reading other things, but I also wasn't sure I was really able to read it well with sophomores in high school, which is who I would have been reading it with.

He's an excellent, excellent writer, uses language very effectively, gives strong details and generalities but also backed up by many, many specifics. His - he really does understand himself and the people around him. It is always very interesting that great artists are capable of taking the most horrendous events; and after reading them, a reader feels a certain optimism. Well, I would give it five. I mean, it's a magnificently well-written description of events in history that are very, very difficult for most of us to face.

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