Word: mauriac
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...Night appeared in France with an introduction by [French novelist Fran?ois] Mauriac. The little book set the Wiesel style: austere, tense phrases articulating the unspeakable?the murder and torture of the innocent, the martyrdom of faith itself as a child watches the hanging of another child: 'Where is God? Where is he? ... And I heard a voice within me answer: Where is he? Here he is?he is hanging here on this gallows.' Some 20 American publishers rejected Night. 'The Holocaust was not something people wanted to know about in those days,' the author remembers. 'The diary of Anne Frank...