Marion Wiesel est traductrice, militante humanitaire et survivante de l'Holocauste. Elle est l'épouse du lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix et survivant de l'Holocauste, Elie Wiesel, et a traduit plusieurs de ses œuvres. Ensemble, ils ont fondé la Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, dédiée à la lutte contre l'indifférence et l'injustice.
Un enfant juif face au mal absolu. Récit de l'expérience vécue par l'auteur dans les camps nazis (Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna et Buchenwald). Ce roman est à la base de toute l'oeuvre de Wiesel et doit être lu en premier. [SDM]
Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, a young man who yearns to understand his father's silence. As campuses burn amidst the unrest of the Sixties and his own generation rebels, the son is drawn to his father's circle of wartime friends in search of clues to the past. Finally discovering that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, young Tamiroff learns that the Nazi is still alive. Haunting, poetic, and very contemporary, "The Fifth Son "builds to an unforgettable climax as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.