EVANIER

is his 18th book) to deal with Soviet Communism, though in 1966 he wrote The Jews of Siberia, a nonfictional work about the cruel lot of Jews under the Soviet dictatorship. The Testament may be regarded as a transition for Wiesel, who, until now, has primarily written about Hitler’s holocaust. Understandably. At the age of 15, he saw his own family perish in Buchenwald, and he survived Auschwitz. He has sought, thus far in vain, to give meaning, some God-given meaning, to this horrifying catastrophe.

Wiesel is a gifted storyteller, and this novel shows him at the height of his narrative skill. His style is infused as well with a sense of mysticism and strangeness, so one reads The Testament without pause, knowing the foreordained end, but not how it will come about.

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is his 18th book) to deal with Soviet Communism, though in 1966 he wrote The Jews of Siberia, a nonfictional work about the cruel lot of Jews under the Soviet dictatorship. The Testament may be regarded as a transition for Wiesel, who, until now, has primarily written about Hitler’s holocaust. Understandably. At the age of 15, he saw his own family perish in Buchenwald, and he survived Auschwitz. He has sought, thus far in vain, to give meaning, some God-given meaning, to this horrifying catastrophe.

Wiesel is a gifted storyteller, and this novel shows him at the height of his narrative skill. His style is infused as well with a sense of mysticism and strangeness, so one reads The Testament without pause, knowing the foreordained end, but not how it will come about.