by Elie Wiesel · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246289210
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«Le Cinquième Fils» is the novel by Elie Wiesel, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (229 pages, in French).
A young Jewish New Yorker grows up in the shadow of a silent father, a survivor of a Polish ghetto devastated by an SS officer known as «the Angel». On learning that his father tried to execute him after the war and that he is still alive, the son delves into the past, identifies with a brother who disappeared in the Holocaust, and ultimately questions vengeance, justice and forgiveness.
Originally published in French in 1983, the work bears the subtitle «roman». Elie Wiesel, author of the novel, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
For readers of literary fiction interested in the Holocaust, historical memory and the dilemmas between justice and vengeance.
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.
