The Town Beyond the Wall

By Elie Wiesel

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Michael, a Holocaust survivor, slips back across the Iron Curtain to his hometown in Hungary in this novel by Elie Wiesel, first published in French in 1962. He wants to face the man who watched from his window, without feeling, as the town's Jews were deported. Arrested and tortured by the secret police, Michael refuses to talk and, in his cell, tries to save another prisoner from silence.

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