Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die [Paperback]

Daniel Stern (Author), Elie Wiesel (Introduction)

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First published in the 1960s, these volumes both deal with the personal demons faced by soldiers and civilians who experienced the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. With 1995 marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, Holocaust literature should be in demand. Both remain "highly recommended" (LJ 5/1/67, LJ 2/1/63).
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Review

Set in New York''s theater district in the 1950s, two Holocaust survivors confront each other to reckon with their common past and a long-buried secret. "Having survived, how do you live, how do you . . . reinvent reasons to believe in art? . . . the two central characters . . . manage to make of their encounter a moving human dialogue in which all the tensions setting the survivors at odds with others, and with themselves, find a dark and decisive literary expression. I loved it when it first appeared, I love it still. I believe it stands among the best of the genre."--Elie Wiesel

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Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: TAMU Press; 1st Rice University Press Ed edition (November 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892633301
• ISBN-13: 978-0892633302
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,597,105 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Doomsday Machine, December 11, 2001

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This review is from: Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die (Paperback)

This novel unfolds like ananke. Everything that happens must happen, by a logic that sane men like us can feel but not enunciate.
The most refreshing thing about the novel, so many years after the unspeakable atrocities of Nazi Germany, is the approach to the history lesson. After being inundated with images of the nasty camps, this novel picks up years later, in New York City, with survivors and their families. Instead of the flat numbers of those who survived at the end of 'Schindler's List', we have the story of a man -- a number -- who survived, and continues to survive. And, we have the story of another man who has never left those camps -- a man who forbids his own escape so many years after freedom.
Fascinating, and brutal.
Daniel Stern is an unfortunately unknown writer among young readers like me, despite his extremely high quality and strong heart. I have yet to find him in my local (bookstore). That saddens me.