Night is an autobiographical work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10879079/ "Winfrey selects Wiesel’s ‘Night’ for book club", Associated Press, January 16, 2006. Although Night is widely regarded as a novel, Wiesel himself has said clearly that it is not. He wrote in his memoirs: "Night is not a novel."