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“Man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn‘t others. It‘s ourselves. Hell is the burning fever that makes you feel cold.”

The author once again grapples with life and love and death, just as he did in the first of his series: Night. This time he is flat in bed, after an accident in which he was run over by a NYC cab…

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― Elie Wiesel, quote from Day

The final book in the loosely connected Night trilogy- this was not an easy or enjoyable read. It‘s dark & philosophical begging the reader to ask why, how?! An elderly man who has physically survived the concentration camps but who is haunted in his everyday existence is hit by a cab in NYC leaving him once again fighting for survival. Dark & depressing. Not a book I‘d easily recommend.

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This book closes the Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel. And that's what the book feels like: a closure. The book asks about life and death, and if it's allowed to be a Holocaust survivor. Why did one survive, but the others didn't? How and why can one move one, while all the others don't? It's a slow, deep story, filled with hurt and pain. But Wiesel goes further, drags himself back to life - but how about our narrator? Can he do the same?

And book #3 is done!! What an ending in the series. If you want to feel what mental struggles people had from surviving concentration camps then read this trilogy! Written so well. Heartbreaking! 😭

This trilogy has been so moving and heartbreaking. His true story is a must read in Night, and both the fictional Dawn and Day take looks at how people, the few “lucky” survivors, try to move on as best they can. In Dawn, making impossible choices as they try to take a step to a different future. This installment, Day, deals a lot with the intense feelings of disconnect and survivor‘s guilt suffered by a different group of survivors.

Man lives while dying, that he represents death to the living, that's where tragedy begins.

I count on myself and on the patient. Or, if you prefer, on the life in the diseased flesh. Life wants to live. Life wants to go on. It is opposed to death. It fights.

Man is not defined by what denies him, but by that which affirms him.

-Elie Wiesel

“Day” was my least favorite out of the Night Trilogy, however, it was no less powerful or full of gorgeous prose than the other two pieces.
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"DAY by Elie Wiesel is not a book I would describe as ‘enjoyable.' There is nothing remotely enjoyable about reading about the pain, the raw misery, or the anguish of the haunt-filled nightmares of a Holocaust survivor. DAY, while not a long book, is compellingly persuasive. I suggest consuming this story rather than reading it. Allow your mind to travel back unfettered by predisposition and predilection.

Elie Wiesel could not write a bad book. Day is another powerful story of survival.

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Just read this and Dawn; I'd read Night awhile ago. Although very little happens, I enjoyed both, especially Dawn.

RIP, Elie Wiesel, who died today aged 87.