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Genre/Form: | Personal narratives Personal narratives, Italian Récits personnels |
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Named Person: | Primo Levi; Primo Levi |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Primo Levi; S J Woolf |
ISBN: | 9780349100135 0349100136 |
OCLC Number: | 744609426 |
Notes: | The first work is a translation of Se questo è un uomo, the second work a translation of La tregua. This combined volume was originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books 1979. |
Description: | 398 pages ; 19 cm |
Other Titles: | Truce Se questo è un uomo. |
Responsibility: | Primo Levi ; translated [from the Italian] by Stuart Woolf ; with an introduction by Paul Bailey and an Afterword by the author. |
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One of the century's truly necessary books -- Philip Roth One of the greatest human testaments of the era * Scotsman * The death of Primo Levi robs Italy of one of its finest writers . . . One of the few survivors of the Holocaust to speak of his experiences with a gentle voice * Guardian * The death of Primo Levi robs Italy of one of its finest writers...One of the few survivors of the Holocaust to speak of his experiences with a gentle voice * GUARDIAN * A life-changing book. * Daily Express * THE TRUCE: * 'One of the century's truly necessary books.' * Philip Roth * 'One of the greatest human testaments of the era.' * Read more...


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- Levi, Primo.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Italian.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Italy -- Personal narratives.
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Italie -- Récits personnels.
- Levi, Primo, -- 1919-1987
- Italy.
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