Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never raises his voice, complains or attributes blame. By telling his story quietly, objectively and in plain language he renders both the horror and the hope of the situation with absolute clarity. Probing the themes which preoccupy all his writing - work love, power, the nature of things, what it is to be human - he leaves the reader drained, elated, apprehensive.
- ISBN10 1857152220
- ISBN13 9781857152227
- Publish Date 25 August 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 May 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Everyman's Library
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 528
- Language English