In a novel of soaring power and stunning spiritual sensitivity, the major events of a century collide in the body and soul of one man. Elie Wiesel's great bestseller is the unforgettable story of a people's desperate struggle to defend itself and to forge on the anvil of history a new destiny. In the author's words,it is "an adventure of one madman, who one night saw not the end of all things, but their beginning." It is a novel of men and women, despair and hope, and of a man confronting his fate.