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The Fifth Son

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The Fifth Son
First edition cover
AuthorElie Wiesel
TranslatorMarion Wiesel
Publication date
August 24, 1983
AwardsCrime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel (2005)

Le cinquième fils (1983),[1] translated as The Fifth Son (1985) by Marion Wiesel,[2] is a novel by Elie Wiesel continuing the thematic material of The Testament.[3] It won the Grand Prize in Literature from the city of Paris.


References

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  1. ^ France: éditions Bernard Grasset, 1983 ISBN 2-246-28921-1
  2. ^ Summit, 1985 ISBN 0-8052-1083-0
  3. ^ Sanford V. Sternlicht Student Companion to Elie Wiesel 2003 0313325308 p.97 "The Testament, The Fifth Son, and The Forgotten represent a chronological and thematic change in what might be called Elie Wiesel's multivolume epic of the Holocaust. With the advent of the 1970s and in these novels, Wiesel turns his attention to "the birth and growth of the second generation of survivors" (D. Stern 1990, 63) as well as to the cold war and the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union."