The Fifth Son

By Elie Wiesel

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The narrator of this 1983 Wiesel novel is the American son of a Holocaust survivor who rarely speaks about the past. The son learns that after the war his father and his friends tried to kill the SS officer who ruled their ghetto and who caused the death of a brother he never knew. Finding that the officer is still alive, he travels to Germany to face him.

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