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Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
If This is a Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
On 22nd February 1944, 650 people were sent to Auschwitz in 12 goods trains. Only Primo Levi and two others survived. "If This Is a Man" is Levi's most direct, non-fictional account of his time in Auschwitz, and in "The Truce" he describes his flight from the hell in which he had been incarcerated. Wi ...Show more
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, bette ...Show more
The Mirror Maker by Primo Levi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
I hope the reader will be indulgent toward the extreme dispersion of themes, tones, and angles of approach that he will find in this collection. My justification is: the 'pieces' are situated in an arc of time that is close to a quarter of a century, the time of my almost total fidelity to LA STAMPA: an ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the "Periodic Table", Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pai ...Show more
The Wrench by Primo Levi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is "about" the man who ...Show more
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