The periodic table
by Primo Levi
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Largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Fascist partisan and a Jew, this book recounts, in clear, beautiful prose, the story of the Piemontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. It provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi's gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi's masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him. It celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.--From publisher description.
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Het periodiek systeem: verhalen van een leven
2009, Meulenhoff Millennium
in Dutch
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Das periodische System
1992, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl.
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- Ungekürzte Ausg., 2. Aufl.
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The periodic table
1984, Schocken Books
in English and Italian
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xvii).
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A vision of the author's life, including his life in the concentration camps, as seen through the kaleidoscope of chemistry.
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