by sweven
Type: fiction
Status: to read
Author: Primo Levi
2006-11-28
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The Periodic Table
Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust.
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by hannibalchew
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Primo Levi
Tags: classic 50books2006
Description: Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading...
2006-01-06