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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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Martin Yazzie
reviewed Dawn on August 10, 2015
Dawn
Elie Wiesel, a world famous, highly honored (and sometimes-criticized) Jewish writer and political activist, was born in Romania in 1928. The novella Dawn was his first work of fiction, published in 1960. Together with his famous memoir Night (1958, of the time he spent in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1944-5) and his next fictional work, Day (1961) it appears in The Night Trilogy. Wiesel died in 2016.
The Night Trilogy edition of Dawn (which I read) has a preface, dating to 2006, in which Wiesel writes that, in the context of the narrative, he wished to explore questions such as How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end? How are we ever to break the cycle of violence and rage? Can terror coexist with justice? Can hate engender anything but hate?The short novel, less than eighty pages, is a first person narrative of Elisha, an eighteen year old Jewish boy, survivor of the death camps, who has been recruited to Palestine to fight in a terrorist organization, whose aim is to force the British out, as a step towards the creation of the Zionist state.
The story is powerfully told, very foreboding. On one page I wrote "magical realism?", and then immediately amended that to "mystical realism". Yes, there are many references to mystical beliefs of the narrator - as well as to mystical experiences. Elisha brings us into his disturbing, and perhaps crazy, dreamworld.
The story races to its conclusion much as a dark, ominous thunderstorm descends out of a hot summer sky.
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