A highly educated Jewish Italian, Primo Levi achieved world-wide fame with his first book, If This is a Man: an objective account of his struggle for survival following imprisonment in Auschwitz in 1943. Taken from his great work The Periodic Table, these three stories describe his training as a chemist in wartime Turin against a backdrop of growing anti-Semitism.
A highly educated Jewish Italian, Primo Levi achieved world-wide fame with his first book, If This is a Man: an objective account of his struggle for survival following imprisonment in Auschwitz in 1943. Taken from his great work The Periodic Table, these three stories describe his training as a chemist in wartime Turin against a backdrop of growing anti-Semitism.