I was fairly excited to read another book by Elie Wiesel that was outside of the Night trilogy, but that being said, I found this novel‘s build up to be slow, and the story itself to be slightly confusing. The whole first half of the book was suspenseful in an uncomfortable way, and I failed to extract the meaning in the ending. Regardless, I did enjoy Wiesel‘s style of writing and the book was so short I finished it in one day.