num_pages: 172
description: Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue'. Each centres on an individual who - whether it be through a juggling trick, a slice of apple or a letter - discovers one of the 'bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve'.The English edition includes just one section of the three originally published in Italian under the title 'Lilít', tales from the other two sections have been published in 'A Tranquil Star'.
language: English
title: Moments of Reprieve
titlecomplete: Moments of Reprieve
genres: Italian Literature, History, Short Stories, Jewish, Holocaust, War, Biography, 20th Century, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1034
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Italiana
publisher: Penguin Books