"A Mad Desire to Dance can most assuredly be considered beautiful (almost beyond belief)."---Judith Fitzgerald, The Philadelphia Inquirer<BR><BR>"Wiesel proves again that he is a master storyteller who can weave a complex tapestry of plots into an intricately poignant human portrait."---Ari L. Goldman, Moment magazine<BR><BR>"A Mad Desire to Dance is the novel Elie Wiesel was born-or more accurately, survived-to write."---Curt Schleier, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<BR><BR>"Unquestionably, Elie Wiesel is one of the most admirable, indeed indispensable, human beings now writing... The Time of the Uprooted is an ambitious and moving new novel."---Merle Rubin, The Washington Post<BR><BR>"Unforgettable... Wiesel wants to pull the reader in, but also to provoke, and never sacrifcies either pursuit in this brave, humbling novel."---Steve Kettmann, San Francisco Chronicle<BR><BR>"The Time of the Uprooted is perhaps Wiesel's most satisfying and succesful work of fiction in years...with his finest talents on full display."---Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times<BR><BR>From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night, a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence.<BR><BR>Despite personal success, Yedidyah---a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage sctress, father to two sons-finds himself increasingly drawn to the past. As he reflects on his life and the decisions he's made, he longingly reminisces about the relationships he once had with the men in his family (his father, his uncle, his grandfather) and the questions that remain unanswered. It's a feeling that is further complicated when Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate named Werner Sonderberg. Sonderberg returned alone from a walk in the Adirondacks with an elderly uncle, whose lifeless body was soon retrieved from the woods. His plea is enigmatic: "Guilty...and not guilty."<BR><BR>These words strike a chord in Yedidyah, plunging him into feelings that bring him harrowingly close to madness. As Sonderberg's trial moves along a path of dizzying yet revelatory twists and turns, Yedidyah begins to understand his own family's hidden past and finally liberates himself from the shadow it has cast over his life.<BR><BR>With his signature elegance and thought fulness, Elie Wiesel has given us an enthralling psychological mystery, both vividly dramatic and profoundly emotional.