IF THIS IS A MAN/THE TRUCE (50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): SURVIVING AUSCHWITZ : MIRACULOUS PHILIPPE SANDS

A new edition of Primo Levis classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Dont CountWith the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose... One of the greatest human testaments of the era Philip RothLevis voice is especially affecting, so clear, firm and gentle, yet humane and apparently untouched by anger, bitterness or self-pity... If This Is a Man is miraculous, finding the human in every individual who traverses its pages Philippe SandsThe 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 [What] gave it such power... was the sheer, unmitigated truth of it; the sense of what a book could achieve in terms of expanding ones own knowledge and understanding at a single sitting... few writers have left such a legacy... A necessary book Independent

Συγγραφέας: Primo Levi , David Baddiel (Introduction By)

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