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  • Published: 19 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781448180738
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 656
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Primo Levi

A Biography





THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF PRIMO LEVI TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH

'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer

Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi’s birth, now featuring a new introduction from the author.

Discover the definitive biography of the iconic writer and Holocaust survivor.

On 11 April 1987 the Italian writer and chemist Primo Levi fell to his death in the house where he was born. More than forty years after his rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, it seemed that Levi had taken his own life. His account of Auschwitz, If This Is a Man, is recognised as one of the essential books of mankind.

Ian Thomson spent over ten years in Italy and elsewhere researching and writing this matchless biography. This incomparable book unravels the strands of a life caught between the factory and the typewriter, family and friends. Deeply researched, it sheds new light on Levi's recurring depressions and unearths vital information about his premature death.

  • Published: 19 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781448180738
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 656
Categories:

About the author

Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson was one of the last to interview
Primo Levi, and the first to journey in his tracks as a biographer. He is an expert on Italian literature and has translated the Sicilian crime writer and essayist Leonardo Sciascia into English.Thomson is the author of two prize-winning works of reportage,Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti and The Dead Yard: Tales of
Modern Jamaica
. He edited Articles of Faith: The
Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene,

while his book Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Journey
Without End was published in 2018. He is the
recipient of the Royal Society of Literature’s
Ondaatje Prize and the W. H. Heinemann Award. He lives in London.

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