Why should I be afraid now?.ĭid you glimpse the other side, the “threshold of the beyond?” I survived I had lived with death, even in death. How can I not? It has almost nothing to do with the Ribbono shel Olam, much more to do with my father and grandfather.ĭo you think that survivors of the Shoah experience critical illness differently than others might? In Auschwitz, my father and I would get up with one pair of tefillin between us. Again and again, Wiesel chooses life.Īfter three days, you wanted to pray. A compact memoir that unfolds in spare, poetic language, the book touches on his childhood, time in Auschwitz, years in Paris after the war, meeting his wife Marion, newcomer experiences in New York City, his teachers and the birth of his son Elisha, with notes about “Night” and other books. His newest book - after publishing more than 50 previous titles - “Open Heart,” is a slender, powerful and beautiful narrative, following his inner life during his hospital adventure. Between heaven and earth, he contemplated, dreamed and imagined his earlier life, his losses, faith, family, work, the unknowable and all that mattered to him. Without much time to anticipate cardiac surgery on five blocked arteries, he said the Shema on the operating-room table and later awakened to sharp pain. In fact, when the Nobel Laureate’s doctors saw his test results and told him to meet them immediately in the emergency room of Lenox Hill Hospital, Wiesel first stole away for two hours to rush to his office for an appointment with some Iranian dissidents. Initially, he failed to grasp its seriousness. Two years ago, Elie Wiesel faced sudden, life-threatening open-heart surgery.
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