Dawn | 
 enlarge | Author: Elie Wiesel
Creator: Frances Frenaye
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 19324
Media: Paperback
Edition: Tra
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0809037726
Dewey Decimal Number: 843.914
EAN: 9780809037728
ASIN: 0809037726
Publication Date: March 21, 2006
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“The author…has built knowledge into artistic fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel’s ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.
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Dawn is a good read August 23, 2008
Wiesel's Dawn is a heart wrenching book about an Israeli freedom fighter, just about a year after the holocaust, of which the man was involved with, that is forced to execute a British officer. The book is about the previous day, and that night leading up to the execution at dawn. The man is confronted by ghosts of his past telling him that if he kills the man, that he invariably labels everyone he has ever known, or loved as a murderer also. The man has to make the decision whether to execute the man, or let him live. He kills the man and then when he looks out a wind he sees his face, signifying that his inner being, his soul if you will, is dead. It is a very moving and touching book
Trilogy...backwards! July 23, 2008
I have read Night and Dawn, and I am awaiting the arrival of Day. Dawn is ok. I can't possibly say it's bad. It's beautifully written, as all of Wiesel's works, but it is more of a character study than a story. It's an easy read, all three books are, they're very short, but very interesting from a historical standpoint, also. I liked Night so much that Dawn didn't quite satisfy me. I have not yet read Day, also called The Accident, but I have a feeling that it will not compare to Night, just as Dawn fell short for me. Perhaps it is because Night has more events over a longer period of time, whereas Dawn slowly covers the event of one night until dawn. It does become more suspenseful in the final chapter. It was good, however I would recommend reading the "trilogy" backwards. None of these three stories coincide, 2 are fictional. So reading them in a different order would pose no issue in understanding them. Save Night, the best for last. The others will seem much better. :)
Also, Twilight is another by Wiesel that has also been associated with these three books, so perhaps add it?
Dawn, Day, Twilight, NIGHT.
Just save Night for last.
 Excellent thinking book & totally different from Night April 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First off, this is not Night 2. I naively expected that when publisher's try to frame them as part of a 'trilogy'. Night is absolutely and without bar one of the most fantastic books I have read in my life.
This is not just another chapter of that. And it is not a sequel. It is an incredibly profound, and beautifully written meditation on the journey of many Holocaust survivors -- but not his. This is a work of complete fiction. Many survivors went to Palestine, and fought the British (not the Arabs) to kick them out and thus be able to establish a free Jewish state.
It is the story of a fictional Elishah (who has remarkably similar childhood and Holocaust experiences to those of Wiesel) who becomes one of these freedom fighters, and is ordered to execute a British officer in retaliation for their hanging one of the rebels. It is an account of the night that Elishah passes, knowing he has to become a murderer in the morning, and all of his internal struggles with that. In a particularly powerful lead up to the end, he realizes the power of hatred, how without hatred, terrorist groups like theirs, and indeed any violence against others is almost impossible. He notes how nations are so adept at teaching their people to hate, and even comes to the point of trying to make himself hate this stranger in order to be able to follow his orders.
EXTREMELY powerful and evocative.
One word of caution -- there is almost no action here. This is a thinking book. If you are not up to the mental effort to think and feel along with him, you will not like it.
In just one word? Terrorism March 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A survivor of this becomes a proponent for that. . .by any means necessary. Unfortunately, Ellie Wiesel's fictional "Dawn" is all too true; all too often repeated.
Terrorized as a Jew by Nazis in World War II, Elisha now terrorizes as a Jew for a free Palestine.
Swap out the name of the Holocast survived and the name of the cause proposed and you have the skeleton of all political or religious terrorism. The terrorists will always be with us. . .they usually will win. . .the body count will certainly rise. It will always be the season of terror.
Life and Death Matters November 26, 2007
Have you ever had to do something very serious that you did not really want to do? Dawn, is an extraordinary novel written by Elie Wiesel, a surviovor in the Holocaust. Dawn is not in any way connected to Night or Day. Dawn is about responsibility and dity, unlike Night or Day. This novel is about a young boy that has been given the responsibility of executing John Dawson, a British soldier. He holds John hostage and brings him food, I know surprising right? The reason he brings John food is because he does not want John to die with an empty stomach. Later he feels sorrow for John Dawson. What will he do? I would have to say the young boy, main character is my favorite character in Dawn because he changes for the best, I think. This is definitely a novel I would read again because the first time you read it you can not comprehend it very well. I recommend Night, Dawn and Day but I would also recommend it for pleasure read only. You can not do any research on the Holocaust with these three books. I hope you take the time to read them.
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