A thrilling novel set in NEW YORK / USA
If This Is a Man / The Truce
Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Europe
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): WW2 and after
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi’s writing isn’t just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a “magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I’ve ever known” – PHILIP ROTH
Two stories… the first is set in Auschwitz and the second is the journey after liberation, through Russia and Europe and ultimately to Italy
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