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The whole of the president's eloquent tribute will appear as a foreword to this memorial edition of \u003ci\u003eNight\u003c\/i\u003e. Like millions of admirers, I first came to know Elie through his account of the horror he endured during the Holocaust simply because he was Jewish, wrote the president.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1986, when Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wrote, Elie Wiesel was rescued from the ashes of Auschwitz after storm and fire had ravaged his life. In time he realized that his life could have purpose: that he was to be a witness, the one who would pass on the account of what had happened so that the dead would not have died in vain and so the living could learn. \u003ci\u003eNight\u003c\/i\u003e, which has sold millions of copies around the world\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eis the very embodiment of that conviction. It is written in simple, understated language, yet it is emotionally devastating, never to be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. \u003ci\u003eNight \u003c\/i\u003eis the shattering record of his memories of the death of his mother, father, and little sister, Tsipora; the death of his own innocence; and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night, writes Wiesel. Never shall I forget . . . even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. These words are etched into the wall of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. 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He comes of age in an atmosphere of sublimated, disoriented eroticism, his impulses restrained by religious and sexual taboos, rigid gender roles, stifling maternal love, and the enforced silences of social decorum. Unable to adapt easily to society's unspoken rules, he is driven to the point of insanity from which he must slowly and painfully return.  Told from several points of view and structured in a series of intersecting flashbacks and interior monologues, Death in Troy describes the difficult geography of male intimacy from multiple perspectives--adolescent friendship, homosexual desire, mother-son bonds, and the relationships between men and women. In a complex chorus of styles and voices, Karasu evokes states of exaltation, humiliation, passion, and despair to create a jarring disharmony of one boy's growth into manhood. \"[Karasu's] refusal to be bound by the formal constraints of \"The Novel\" is meant to reflect his characters' refusal to be bound by the moral constraints of society as they confront their sexualities in a country that, though secular in government, is still largely Muslim in culture.\" --East Bay Express  \"Death in Troy is a teeming, elliptical examination of repressed homosexuality by popular Turkish writer Bilge Karasu...Sin, madness and guilt are all balanced by flashes of beautiful imagery and poetic language.\" --Publishers Weekly Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) was born in Istanbul. Often referred to as \"the sage of Turkish literature,\" during his lifetime he published collections of stories, novels, and two books of essays. 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