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      A Beggar in Jerusalem

      by Elie Wiesel
      Published
      Apr 1978
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      When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory."

      This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.

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      First Edition Apr 1978 Pocket ISBN13 9780671812539 ISBN10 067181253X
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      May 1989 Schocken ISBN13 9780805208979 ISBN10 0805208976
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      Jun 1997 Knopf ISBN13 9780805210521 ISBN10 0805210520
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      Jan 2001 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345301192 ISBN10 0345301196
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      Jan 1969 Random House ISBN13 9780394416519 ISBN10 0394416511
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