The Time of the Uprooted
- ISBN-10
- 0805211772
- ISBN-13
- 9780805211771
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.
- Author
- Elie Wiesel
Description
Tormented by feelings of loss and dispossession after spending his life fleeing first the Nazis and then the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary, Gamaliel Friedman finally settles in New York, where he works as a ghostwriter and meets a fellow group of exiles, which includes a rabbi whose mystical beliefs finally offer him a chance to reconcile with the past. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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