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Two of our favorite Italian writers are closely associated with Turin, which is also home to Einaudi, an historical publishing house.
Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919. Deported to Auschwitz in 1944, he returned home after the war and continued his work as a chemist. But the death camp had deeply affected him and many of his finest works dealt with it. It has been said by many of the great historians and literary critics of the 20th century that no one ever expressed the horrors of the Nazi regime as eloquently as Levi, who died in 1977.
Survival in Auschwitz
by Primo Levi (Stuart Woolf, translator)
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An account of a small group of Auschwitz survivors' impossible, but victorious, walk back to Italy.
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If Not Now, When?
by Primo Levi (William Weaver, translator)
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The Drowned and the Saved
by Primo Levi
This book, published months after Italian writer Primo Levi's apparent suicide, is a small but powerful look at Auschwitz, the hell where Levi was imprisoned during World War II. The book was his third on the subject, following Survival in Auschwitz (1947) and The Reawakening (1963). Removed from the experience by time and age, Levi chose to serve more as an observer of the camp than the passionate young man of his previous work. He writes of "useless violence" inflicted by the guards on prisoners and then concludes the book with a discussion of the Germans who have written to him about their complicity in the event. In all, he tries to make sense of something that - as he knew - made no sense at all.
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If This Is a Man and The Truce
by Primo Levi
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Moments of Reprieve
by Primo Levi
An impressive collection of stories that celebrate the spirit of having survived the horrors of Auschwitz.
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The Monkey's Wrench
by Primo Levi
In this exuberant novel, one of Italy's greatest living writers celebrates the art of storytelling and the spirit of work through weaving the mesmerizing t ales of an itinerant construction worker, Libertini Faussone, and a writer-chemist, the true and fictional Primo Levi.
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Other People's Trades
by Primo Levi
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Natalia Ginsburg was born in Palermo, but she grew up in Turin and lived there after the war. Her novels, often warm and moving narratives of families and close friends, include All Our Yesterdays, Family Sayings, The Little Virtues, The City and the House, The Manzoni Family and Valentino and Sagittarius.
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The Reawakening