Hostage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780307599582)

From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today's troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg--professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband--has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why the innocent Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best, telling stories--to himself and to the men who hold his fate in their hands.
With beauty and sensitivity, Wiesel builds the world of Shaltiel's memories, haunted by the Holocaust and a Europe in the midst of radical change. A Communist brother, a childhood spent hiding from the Nazis in a cellar, the kindness of liberating Russian soldiers, the unrest of the 1960s--these are the stories that unfold in Shaltiel's captivity, as the outside world breathlessly follows his disappearance and the police move toward a final confrontation with his captors.
Impassioned, provocative and insistently humane, Hostage is both a masterly thriller and a profoundly wise meditation on the power of memory to connect us to the past and our shared need for resolution.

Author: Elie Wiesel
ISBN-10: 0307599582
ISBN-13: 9780307599582
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.96w x 0.83d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2012 pg. 70
Publishers Weekly 05/21/2012 pg. 27
Booklist 06/01/2012 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2012
Library Journal 07/01/2012 pg. 80
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2012 pg. 14
Shelf Awareness 08/28/2012
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2012 pg. 42