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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
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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 Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
The Reawakening by Primo Levi
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
First published in English in 1965, "The Reawakening" is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, "Survival in Auschwitz." The inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home ...Show more
The Survivor (Mini Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place'A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table.
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