My review:
Night can be one of the most poignant books you get to read in your life. Extremely touching, the book narrates the plight of people that were shoved into Nazi Concentration Camps during WW-II.
The author, 15 years-old at that time, too was sent to one of these camps with his family. It wasn't long before he was separated from his mother and sisters. The book talks about human struggle to survive in conditions where the human depravity knew no boundaries.
The narrative discusses everyday encounters with death and how these encounters converted men into beasts, making them insensitive to death of people around them; their single-minded focus being on gathering food and clothing for their own survival.
Other than highlighting the atrocities that the prisoners were subjected to, the book also narrates a touching story of the relationship between the author and his father with daily battles of the former to keep the latter alive - till it comes to a point where the son is faced with a dilemma if these efforts are worth anything at all.
A good read that will make you sensitive towards suppression and tell you the importance of life you are leading. I will give it 4 out of 5.
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