The Time of the Uprooted

By Elie Wiesel

Categories: Literature & Fiction

As a child in 1939, Gamaliel Friedman fled Czechoslovakia and was saved by a Christian woman named Ilonka. Wiesel published this novel in French in 2003. Now an aging ghostwriter in New York, living among other refugees, he is asked to visit a dying Hungarian woman in a hospital who may be Ilonka, and he must look back on a life of exile, love and loss.

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