Wiesel paints a painful, subversive picture of a Holocaust survivor on the other side of death (meaning, the one inflicting death). A quick, beautiful read.

Weisel's writing is painfully, delightfully vivid, succinct, imaginative, and evokes awareness and feelings from deep places. Not for the tender-hearted, but absolutely worth the read regardless. I will carry much of his imagery about death for the rest of my life. Recommended.