Night

Night, in just over a hundred pages, manages to completely capture both darkness and optimism.  It is about a young Jewish boy taken to concentration camps during the Holocaust.  He is starved and beaten, and, at the very end, he watches his father die.  Night is made all the better by being an autobiography.  I do have a question though.  I mean no disrespect, but when they were starving within an inch of their life and people were dying of hunger consistently in the cattle cars, why did they not resort to cannibalism?  I mean no offense by this question; it just seems the logical thing to do in such a situation.  That minor detail aside, Night was an excellent book that gives a unique perspective on the most terrifying and horrible event in recent history.