Fifth Son: A novel - Softcover

Wiesel, Elie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805210830 ISBN 13: 9780805210835

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, a young man who yearns to understand his father's silence. As campuses burn amidst the unrest of the Sixties and his own generation rebels, the son is drawn to his father's circle of wartime friends in search of clues to the past. Finally discovering that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, young Tamiroff learns that the Nazi is still alive. Haunting, poetic, and very contemporary, The Fifth Son builds to an unforgettable climax as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.

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Review:

"Superb . . . wonderfully effective and moving."
--Washington Post Book World

"A work of passion and intelligence."
--Chicago Tribune Book World

"Powerful [and] emotional."
--Newsday

"A voice that is humanist and universal even as it is Jewish-minded and special . . . The author makes all of us 'children' of that generation."
--The New York Times

Synopsis:

When a Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, the son also discovers that the Nazi is still alive. What begins as a quest for his fathers love becomes a re-enactment of the past as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805210830
• ISBN 13: 9780805210835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240