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A Tranguil Star. Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi by Primo Levi
$55.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Profound, moving and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Here, for the first time in English, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, is a landmark selection of his fiction - all in brand new translations. These exquisitely wrought st ...Show more
A Tranquil Star - Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In "The Fugitive" an office worker composes the most beautiful poem eve ...Show more
Collected Poems: Primo Levi by Primo Levi
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In 1944 Primo Levi was sent to Buna-Monowitz, a subsidiary of Auschwitz. His prose accounts of this time are now internationally regarded as classics. Yet for many of his readers, this will be the first opportunity to encounter Levi's poetic treatment of these appalling events and their painful psycholo ...Show more
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, t ...Show more
If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
$29.99 NZD
Category: No Category
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: very good
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, 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. He was profoundly ...Show more
Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. This book features stories that are an elegy to those who stoo ...Show more
The Complete Works of Primo Levi by Primo Levi
$500.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Primo Levi's entire body of work, newly translated, in three beautifully slip-cased hardback editions, with an introduction by Toni Morrison Primo Levi has long been admired for his harrowing account of suffering in Auschwitz, If This Is a Man. Among the thousands of survivors who have written about the ...Show more
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi; Raymond Rosenthal (translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
The author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to delve into the minds and motives of oppressors and oppressed alike. Describing the diffic ...Show more
The Magic Paint by Primo Levi
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'He was blamed for endless disasters, from failed exams to a bridge collapse, an avalanche, even a shipwreck: all due, in the stupid opinion of, first, his fellow-students and, later, his colleagues, to the penetrating power of his evil eye...' Profound and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
$24.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the "Periodic Table", Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pai ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
$21.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The properties of elements often reflect the properties of life itself - volatile, inert, lustrous, precious, poisonous, brittle... Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Je ...Show more