Open Heart

By Elie Wiesel

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Elie Wiesel's short memoir, first published in 2011, begins when, at the age of eighty-two, he is told he needs emergency heart surgery. As he faces the operation, he looks back over his life: his family, his faith and his doubts, his writing and teaching, his work for human rights, and the question of whether he has done enough to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive.

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