There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
Elie WieselAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Journalist
- Nationality: american
- Born: September 30, 1928
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