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A Tranguil Star. Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi by Primo Levi
Category: Fiction
Profound, moving and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Here, for the first time in English, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, is a landmark selection of his fiction - all in brand new translations. These exquisitely wrought st ...Show more
A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein; Alessandra Bastagli (Translator)
Category: Fiction
These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older ...Show more
A Tranquil Star - Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In "The Fugitive" an office worker composes the most beautiful poem eve ...Show more
Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi
Category: History
While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider public. Dating from the weeks and months immediately a ...Show more
Auschwitz Testimonies 1945-1986 by Primo Levi
Category: Biography
In 1945, soon after liberation, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first acco ...Show more
IF THIS IS A MAN AND THE TRUCE by Primo Levi
Category: Biography | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never ra ...Show more
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
Category: History
In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage a personal war of revenge against the Nazis: blowing up trains, res ...Show more
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, t ...Show more
If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
Category: Biography Memoir
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell ...Show more
If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Category: Fiction | Series: HACHETTE ESSENTIALS
'One of the greatest human testaments of the era' - Philip Roth With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it ...Show more