If This Is A Man/The Truce
- Author Primo Levi, Translated by Stuart Woolf
- Narrator Henry Goodman
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 16 hours and 24 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: historical, political and military, Memoirs, Second World War, The Holocaust.
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Critics Review
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The death of Primo Levi robs Italy of one of its finest writers . . . One of the few survivors of the Holocaust to speak of his experiences with a gentle voice
Guardian -
Levi’s voice is especially affecting, so clear, firm and gentle, yet humane and apparently untouched by anger, bitterness or self-pity. If This Is a Man is miraculous, finding the human in every individual who traverses its pages, whether a Häftling (prisoner) or Muselmann (“the weak, the inept, those doomed to selection”), a kapo or a guard.
Philippe Sands -
With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose… One of the greatest human testaments of the era
Philip Roth -
There are other Holocaust testimonies, but Levi’s is the first, and the most focused… Written before the genre existed, it reads more straightforwardly like a record… It is a meticulously presented diary of hell
David Baddiel -
[What] gave it such power… was the sheer, unmitigated truth of it; the sense of what a book could achieve in terms of expanding one’s own knowledge and understanding at a single sitting… few writers have left such a legacy… A necessary book
Independent -
A life-changing book
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