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A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein; Alessandra Bastagli (Translator)
42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older ...Show more
A Tranquil Star - Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In "The Fugitive" an office worker composes the most beautiful poem eve ...Show more
Auschwitz Testimonies 1945-1986 by Primo Levi
33.95 AUD
Category: WWI & WWII
In 1945, soon after liberation, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first acco ...Show more
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, t ...Show more
If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: very good
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 ...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 Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi; Raymond Rosenthal (translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
The author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to delve into the minds and motives of oppressors and oppressed alike. Describing the diffic ...Show more
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 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.
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