If This Is a Man The Truce by Primo Levi .was the sheer, unmitigated truth of it the sense of what a book could achieve in terms of expanding one´s own knowledge and understanding at a single sitting. One of the few survivors of the Holocaust to speak of his experiences with a gentle voice´ Guardian ´The death of Primo Levi robs Italy of one of its finest writers. With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan. If This Is a Man is miraculous, finding the human in every individual who traverses its pages´ Philippe Sands Author(s): Primo Levi Stuart Woolf (Translator) Biography & Memoir. Henry Goodman does an excellent job of narrating what might have been a banal and unrelieved story of true horror. This is an odyssey of sorts, crossing Europe, and has some humour, as well. ´Levi´s voice is especially affecting, so clear, firm and gentle, yet humane and apparently untouched by anger, bitterness or self-pity. In The Truce, Levi goes on to describe the aftermath of his internment at Birkenau and his journey back to Italy. One of the greatest human testaments of the era´ Philip Roth ´With 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. Featuring a new introduction from the author of Jews don´t count, David Baddiel.Ī new edition of Primo Levi´s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don´t Count A reissue of Primo Levi´s classic memoir of the Holocaust, published to mark Abacus´s 50th anniversary.

If This Is a Man • The Truce by Primo Levi