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Written & audio book narrated by Elie Wiesel - Abridged Nonfiction - 2 COMPACT DISCS - 1.5 hours

Publisher, Random House audio books (March 2006)

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Torn from a traditional and loving Jewish family life in a Carpathian mountain village and dragged through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Weisel emerged a bloodless adolescent, a mute spirit, with no homeland. In this passionate, poignant, and inspiring look back at those years and what followed, his remarkable life unfolds for the listener.

The long-anticipated memoirs of the novelist and Nobel Peace Laureate open with a child's entry into hell. We see the boy, Elie Wiesel, torn from his traditional and loving Jewish family life and dragged through the horrors of Buchenwald. We see him emerge a bloodless adolescent, a mute spirit, with no homeland. In his passionate, poignant and moving account of those years -- and what followed -- a remarkable life unfolds.

Wiesel recalls his struggle with his God, and his intense sorties into the study of philosophy and the Jewish Scriptures. He remembers the gradual rekindling of old dreams. He is comforted by the survival of two of his sisters. And becomes, once again, fully alive.

As he grows older, we see him beginning to travel the world. He forms the deepest of attachments to Israel. At last, he finds his voice as witness. His life becomes a combat -- powered by love, compassion, and sometimes rage -- between doubt and faith, despair and trust, forgetting and memory.

All Rivers Run to the Sea is a profoundly moving and brilliant memoir.

About the Author: Elie Wiesel is the author of more than thirty books, including Night, The Accident, A Beggar in Jerusalem (Winner of the Prix Medicis), The Forgotten, and From the Kingdom of Memory. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.