When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory."
This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.
- ISBN10 067181253X
- ISBN13 9780671812539
- Publish Date 1 May 1978 (first published 1 January 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English