A Beggar in Jerusalem

Set at the Western Wall in the days after the Six-Day War of 1967, this 1968 novel by Elie Wiesel won France's Prix Médicis. David, a survivor of the Holocaust, waits among beggars and storytellers for his friend Katriel, who has gone missing in the fighting. As the night's tales circle around memory, guilt and survival, past and present blur in the reunited city of Jerusalem.