Name: A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories
Price: 270.00 ZAR
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Author: Primo Levi
ISBN: 9780141188911

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Primo Levi

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

ISBN

014118891x

ISBN13

9780141188911

Edition No.

A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories

Primo Levi (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

New Book Imported to South Africa

Delivery: 12 Aug - 19 Aug

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Synopsis "A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories "

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 ever with unforeseen consequences, while 'Magic Paint' sees a group of researchers develop a paint that mysteriously protects them from misfortune. 'Gladiators' and 'The Knall' are chilling explorations of mass violence, and in 'The Tranquil Star' a simple story of stargazing becomes a meditation on language, imagination and infinity.

Primo Levi

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He was born into a Jewish family settled in Piedmont. In 1941, he graduated as a chemist from the University of Turin, a profession he would later combine with his literary activity. After participating in the resistance in northern Italy, he was captured and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Following the liberation of the camp in 1945, and after a hazardous journey through Eastern Europe, Levi returned to Turin, where he published his first account of the Nazi extermination camps, If This Is a Man (1947), a foundational book of concentration camp literature

Subsequently, The Truce (1963) and The Drowned and the Saved (1986) were published, two essential titles that complete the Auschwitz Trilogy. Among his works are also his five volumes of stories: Natural Histories, Structural Defect, The Periodic Table, Lilith and Other Stories, and Last Christmas of War.

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