“Correction,” Gamaliel said at last. “ ‘Go on’ is not the right choice of words. I believe there are better ones.”
“Have you found them?”
“Yes.”
“What are they?”
“Begin again.”
They were silent, watching and marveling at the sun as, after a moment’s hesitation, it continued to rise, illuminating the houses of the rich and the poor, the valleys and the mountains, warming the wounded hearts of the uprooted.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ELIE WIESEL is the author of more than forty books, including his unforgettable international best sellers Night and A Beggar in Jerusalem, winner of the Prix Médicis. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, and the French Legion of Honor with the rank of Grand Cross. In 1986, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University. He lives with his wife, Marion, in New York City.
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The time of the uprooted / Elie Wiesel.
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