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Primo Levi

Works by Primo Levi

If Not Now, When? [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Se non ora, quando?

The Wrench [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: La chiave a stella

Moments of Reprieve [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by Ruth Feldman
Original title: Lilit e altri racconti (mostly)

Like the Drowned and the Saved and If This is a Man this is one of the series of books Primo Levi wrote about his and others’ experience of the German death camps. Levi strove, as all men and women with any social awareness must, (more...)

The Periodic Table [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by R Rosenthal
Original title: Il sistema periodico

The Periodic Table is an unusual and intriguing book in which Primo Levi’s double vocation of industrial chemist and writer find themselves in happy alliance. In its twenty-one short pieces named after different elements of the periodic table (Argon, Zinc, Carbon etc. (more...)

The Drowned and the Saved [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by R Rosenthal
Original title: I sommersi e i salvati

In this internationally celebrated book, Primo Levi, a Jewish-Italian concentration camp survivor, leaves a harrowing testament. (more...)

The Reawakening [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by S Woolf
Original title: La tregua

The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino and Primo Levi and Peter Forbes

The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961-1987 [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi

Other People’s Trades [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by R Rosenthal
Original title: Altrui mestiere

If This Is a Man & the Truce

by Primo Levi
Translated by S Woolf
Original title: Se questo è un uomo, La tregua

Primo Levi was a young, educated and inept member of the Italian resistance when he was captured by the fascist militia in the winter of 1943. He was identified as a Jew and shipped to Auschwitz. This book is an account of his time in hell until the liberation, (more...)

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