Moments of Reprieve (Penguin Modern Classics) [Paperback]

Primo Levi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2001 | Series: Penguin Modern Classics

This collection of 15 short stories reflect life and death in Auschwitz during the Second World War. Each story features a different protagonist, all survivors of the horrors of life in a concentration camp. They explore the costs of survival and the nature of common morality.

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About the Author

Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919. The son of an educated middle-class Jewish family, he graduated with a degree in chemistry and found a job as a research chemist in Milan. In December 1943, he was arrested as part of the anti-fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz. After the war, Levi resumed his career as a chemist, retiring only in 1975. His graphic account of his time in Auschwitz, If This Is a Man, was published in 1947 and he went on to write many other books, including If Not Now, When? and The Periodic Table, emerging not only as one of the most profound and haunting commentators on the Holocaust, but as a great writer on many twentieth-century themes. In 1987, Primo Levi died in a fall that is widely believed to have been suicide. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141183896
• ISBN-13: 978-0141183893
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,822,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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