And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-

By Elie Wiesel

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Elie Wiesel's second volume of memoirs, which appeared in French in 1996, picks up his life in 1969, the year he married Marion Rose. Wiesel recounts his work as a writer and teacher, his campaigns for Soviet Jews and for victims of atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, his confrontation with President Reagan over Bitburg, and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

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