Twilight (English and French Edition) - Hardcover

Wiesel, Elie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671644076 ISBN 13: 9780671644079

Publisher: Summit Books, 1988

Synopsis

Professor Raphael Lipkin checks into a clinic for patients believing themselves to be characters from the Bible and ancient history to explore the relationship between madness and prophecy, but he is soon drawn into the patients' irrational world

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Raphael Lipkin is a man obsessed. He hears voices. He talks to ghosts. He is spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York--not as a patient, but as a visiting professional with a secret, personal quest.A professor of literature and a Holocaust survivor, Raphael, having rebuilt his life since the war, sees it on the verge of coming apart once more. He longs to talk to Pedro, the man who rescued him as a fifteen-year-old orphan from postwar Poland and brought him to Paris, becoming his friend, mentor, hero, and savior. But Pedro disappeared inside the prisons of Stalin's Russia shortly after the war. Where is Pedro now, and how can Raphael discern what is true and what is false without him?

About the Author:

ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.

About this edition

• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0671644076
• ISBN 13: 9780671644079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 217