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Dawn
by Elie Wiesel
A short novel: a Holocaust survivor in Palestine must execute a British officer at dawn. On what killing does to the killer.
Read it if…
you want Wiesel's moral fiction after Night.
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Skip it if…
you want memoir only.
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Three things you will actually use
- Violence marks the one who commits it.
- Survivors face new choices.
- Dawn is not relief.
Do this first
Read it in an evening.
Our verdict
Wiesel's Dawn.
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