The Zone of Interest
2014 · 306 pages
At Auschwitz a Nazi officer courts the commandant's wife while the commandant, a preening drunk, complains about his workload. The third narrator is a Jewish prisoner made to burn the bodies.
★ 5.0
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Man's Search for Meaning
1946 · 165 pages
Frankl, a Viennese psychiatrist, lost his wife and parents to the camps and survived Auschwitz himself. He watched who endured and who gave up, and named the last freedom: choosing your own response.
★ 6.9
Night
1955 · 120 pages
Wiesel was a religious teenager when his town was emptied and he arrived at Auschwitz with his father. He tells it in short flat sentences, and the flatness is unbearable.
★ 8.3