A Beggar in Jerusalem Author:Elie Wiesel, Lily Edelman (Translator) In the days following the Six-Day War, a Holocaust survivor visits the reunited city of Jerusalem and takes a spiritual journey back and forth in time. — In a novel of soaring power and stunning spiritual sensitivity, the major events of a century collide in the body and soul of one man. Elie Wiesel's great bestseller is the unforgettable sto... more »ry of a people's desperate struggle to defend itself and to forge on the anvil of history a new destiny. In the author's words, it is "an adventure of one madman, who one night saw not the end of all things, but their beginning. It is a novel of men and women, despair and hope, and of a man confronting his fate.« less