Primo Levi: A Life

The award-winning biography about the Holocaust survivor—"Modest, useful, well-written, a credit to its subject" (The Economist).

Winner, Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Award

Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining until his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending hi...