The Art of Inventing Hope
Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel
During the last four years of his life, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel met with Howard in Chicago, New York and Florida to discuss the subject that linked them: Both Professor Wiesel and Robert Reich, Howard’s father, were liberated from the Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. The friendship that developed between Professor Wiesel and Howard became a partnership, the two chronicling crucial conversations between a Holocaust survivor and a son of survivors: two generations contemplating a cataclysmic event and its consequences.
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What They Say
“Reich does an admirable job of complementing his subject’s sage words with his own perspective without in any way detracting or distracting from it – no easy task, yet one the author accomplishes with aplomb.”
Kirkus Reviews
“Reich’s own narrative is as compelling as the advice Wiesel offers, and in the end it is so satisfying to see how these two brilliant minds find solace through words and through love.”
Novelist Mary Morris
