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"--
Review Quotes: "I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed." -Saul Bellow
"The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."-Italo Calvino "A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination." -The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece." -Los Angeles Times "Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry." -The New Yorker "One of the most important Italian writers." -Umberto Eco