An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition. Yet this exquisitely lucid text is also humourous and even witty in a way possible only to one who has looked into the abyss.
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An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table.

Product details

ISBN
9781857152180
Published
1995
Publisher
Everyman
Weight
413 gr
Height
210 mm
Width
133 mm
Thickness
21 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
280

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