A mad desire to dance : a novel / Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307266508
- ISBN: 9780307266507
- Physical Description: 271 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Borzoi book"-- verso. |
Summary, etc.: | Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war. |
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Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 6 of 6 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Babcock Library - Ashford | F WIE (Text) | 3311000061671T | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F WIESEL E (Text) | 32544073163114 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF WIE (Text) | 33260000488966 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC WIESEL (Text) | 36937002105618 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | FIC WIE (Text) | 33420145059805 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
North Branch - Bridgeport | FIC WIESEL (Text) | 34000075285825 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
A Mad Desire to Dance
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. In 1944, he and his family were deported along with other Jews to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. His mother and his younger sister died there. He loaded stones onto railway cars in a labor camp called Buna before being sent to Buchenwald, where his father died. He was liberated by the United States Third Army on April 11, 1945. After the war ended, he learned that his two older sisters had also survived. He was placed on a train of 400 orphans that was headed to France, where he was assigned to a home in Normandy under the care of a Jewish organization. He was educated at the Sorbonne and supported himself as a tutor, a Hebrew teacher and a translator. He started writing for the French newspaper L'Arche. In 1948, L'Arche sent him to Israel to report on that newly founded state. He also became the Paris correspondent for the daily Yediot Ahronot. In this capacity, he interviewed the novelist Francois Mauriac, who urged him to write about his war experiences. The result was La Nuit (Night). After the publication of Night, Wiesel became a writer, literary critic, and journalist. His other books include Dawn, The Accident, The Gates of the Forest, The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry, and Twilight. He received a numerous awards and honors for his literary work including the William and Janice Epstein Fiction Award in 1965, the Jewish Heritage Award in 1966, the Prix Medicis in 1969, and the Prix Livre-International in 1980. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work in combating human cruelty and in advocating justice. He had a leading role in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. He died on July 2, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography)