A chemist by training, Primo Levi (1919-1987) was arrested as an anti-fascist partisan during World War II, and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. He is the author of many books including The Drowned and the Saved and If This is a Man.
One of the most important and gifted writers of our time. -- Italo Calvino An important corrective to the accepted view of Auschwitz. * Guardian * The book is important not just because it is the first published work by Levi; it contains the seeds of his great Survival in Auschwitz. * New Yorker * One of the first written by eyewitnesses, it has an important place in Holocaust historiography. * Publishers Weekly *