The Fifth Son Explained
Le cinquième fils (1983),[1] translated as The Fifth Son (1985) by Marion Wiesel,[2] is a novel by Elie Wiesel continuing the thematic material of The Testament.[3] It won the Grand Prize in Literature from the city of Paris.
Notes and References
- France: éditions Bernard Grasset, 1983
- Summit, 1985
- Sanford V. Sternlicht Student Companion to Elie Wiesel 2003 0313325308 p.97 "The Testament, The Fifth Son, and The Forgotten represent a chronological and thematic change in what might be called Elie Wiesel's multivolume epic of the Holocaust. With the advent of the 1970s and in these novels, Wiesel turns his attention to "the birth and growth of the second generation of survivors" (D. Stern 1990, 63) as well as to the cold war and the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union."
