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Overview
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.Synopsis
In this haunting, poetic, and very contemporary novel, Elie Wiesel introduces us to a young American-born man, the son of Holocaust survivors who yearns to penetrate his father's present silence and his secret past. It is a journey that will take him into the darkest hours of the Nazi terror, the ancient passages of the Talmud, and the office of a businessman in modern-day Germany...where his extraordinary fate awaits him.
— The Washington Post Book World - D. M. Thomas
Superb...wonderously effective and moving.
Book Details
Published
April 1, 1998
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages
228
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780805210835