I was not able to put down this short memoir of Wiesel's experiences in the concentration camps. From the very beginning, this book gripped me. As horrifying as it was to imagine the shock of being quarantined, I couldn't tear myself away. The book, of course, left me in tears. At once, a despairing tale of inhumanity on a terrifying scale and a triumph for Wiesel, who through the use his wits and the advice of his father, managed to escape death in the concentration camps.