A Mad Desire to Dance : A Novel (Paperback)

from SqueakyChu

This was a difficult book to get into and also to work through, but, ultimately, it was satisfying. As usual, Elie Wiesel reaches back into his personal experience of the emotions of time of the Holocaust in Europe and brings these to life in his novel. The story begins with Doriel, a Polish man ...

from kirstiecat

I will always remember seeing Elie Wiesel speak in person when I was at university. For a Holocaust survivor, he was remarkably filled with the essence of hope in the human spirit. He had a sense of the world that was baffling from where I sat after what he had been through but there was a defini...

from richardderus

Like any other Wiesel book, this is well worth reading. Don't be put off by the philosophy-student-at-2am first 50pp. Chapter 3, starting on p51, begins a different phase of the book and it's a much less claustrophobic experience after that. Wiesel is justly famous for the memoir "Night". He's no...

from richardderus

Like any other Wiesel book, this is well worth reading. Don't be put off by the philosophy-student-at-2am first 50pp. Chapter 3, starting on p51, begins a different phase of the book and it's a much less claustrophobic experience after that. Wiesel is justly famous for the memoir "Night". He's no...

from SqueakyChu

This was a difficult book to get into and also to work through, but, ultimately, it was satisfying. As usual, Elie Wiesel reaches back into his personal experience of the emotions of time of the Holocaust in Europe and brings these to life in his novel. The story begins with Doriel, a Polish man ...