From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences Book

When I was in my twenties and taking Holocausttt history classes I could read these books. That was thirty years ago, believe it or not. I'm 53 now so maybe a little less than thirty years but still the passage of time and maybe experience and who knows has made me unable to completely finish one of his books. Maybe our teachers chose the ones we read based on intensity? I've gravitated away from them over time and still I wonder. This book is a series of essays some of which I have read in other collections of his writing. Eli Wiesel never fails in intensity, analysis, and drawing the very last imodican of emotion or analysis. I know I've said that before or at least twice in this review. As usual I need to read his work in small doses. It is, for all understandable reasons very dark. Perhaps the only way that man was able to live sixty plus years after his release from Buchenwald was to write. No matter what book I read of his I'll always submit the same review. And the translation work is superb.