The Chosen
1967 · 271 pages
Two Brooklyn boys meet when one's line drive shatters the other's glasses at a yeshiva ball game. Danny, raised in silence to inherit a Hasidic dynasty, is secretly reading Freud in German.
★ 5.2
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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