The periodic table
By: Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal
Contributors: Rosenthal, Raymond
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780805210415
Subjects: Jews
Work titles: Sistema periodico
Description: 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 the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of World War II, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world.
Notes: Reprint. "Originally published in hardcover by Schocken Books in 1984"--Title page verso.

Translation of: Il sistema periodico.