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A PROPRIETOR PICK: “One of the most quietly moving and thoughtful stories of horror and survival.”
Industrial Chemist Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish anti-fascist who, after joining a small resistance group in northern Italy, was captured by Fascist militia in December 1943 and handed over to the Nazis. Deported to Auschwitz in February 1944, he spent eleven months imprisoned in the camp before its liberation in January 1945. If This Is a Man is his powerful firsthand account of survival, humanity, and life under the brutal conditions of the Holocaust.
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count.
'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... One of the greatest human testaments of the era' Philip Roth.
'Levi's 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 Sands.
'The 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.
'A necessary book' Independent.
A PROPRIETOR PICK: “One of the most quietly moving and thoughtful stories of horror and survival.”
Industrial Chemist Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish anti-fascist who, after joining a small resistance group in northern Italy, was captured by Fascist militia in December 1943 and handed over to the Nazis. Deported to Auschwitz in February 1944, he spent eleven months imprisoned in the camp before its liberation in January 1945. If This Is a Man is his powerful firsthand account of survival, humanity, and life under the brutal conditions of the Holocaust.
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count.
'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... One of the greatest human testaments of the era' Philip Roth.
'Levi's 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 Sands.
'The 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.
'A necessary book' Independent.