# The Fifth Son

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- Book: [The Fifth Son](https://www.bookquiver.com/elie-wiesel/the-fifth-son) ([The Fifth Son.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elie-wiesel/the-fifth-son.md))
- Authors: [Elie Wiesel](https://www.bookquiver.com/elie-wiesel)
- Publisher: schocken
- ISBN: 978-08-0521-083-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1998-04-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, a young man who yearns to understand his father’s silence. As campuses burn amidst the unrest of the...