Trade Paperback - Levi, Primo: Survival in Auschwitz

Originally titled: If This Is a Man (Italian: Se questo è un uomo) and renamed for the United States title: Survival in Auschwitz, is a memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Monowitz) from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.

Auschwitz Trilogy number 1
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi's experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a "true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.

In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit.
Previously published under the title "If This Is a Man"

Trade Paperback. Like New condition.
9780684826806
Published in 1996 by Touchstone. Originally published in 1993.
187 pages
Actual product in photographs.