(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
"The Periodic Table "is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo
Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist
partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the
Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and
young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his
investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides
crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous
project of remembrance that is Levi's gift to posterity. But far