Bibliograph

Hostage, Elie Wiesel

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Hostage, Elie Wiesel

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Hostage

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Oclc number

778429962

Responsibility statement

Elie Wiesel

Summary

It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg -- professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband -- has been taken hostage : abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why the innocent Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best, telling stories -- to himself and to the men who hold his fate in their hands. With beauty and sensitivity, Wiesel builds the world of Shaltiel's memories, haunted by the Holocaust and a Europe in the midst of radical change. A Communist brother, a childhood spent hiding from the Nazis in a cellar, the kindness of liberating Russian soldiers, the unrest of the 1960s -- these are the stories that unfold in Shaltiel's captivity, as the outside world breathlessly follows his disappearance and the police move toward a final confrontation with his captors. Hostage is both a masterly thriller and a profoundly wise meditation on the power of memory to connect us to the past and our shared need for resolution.--Container

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