Moments of Reprieve - Softcover

Ignatieff, Michael; Levi, Primo; Feldman, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141183896 ISBN 13: 9780141183893

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

A finely-crafted collection of 15 short stories which reflect life and death in Auschwitz during the second World War. Each featuring a different protagonist, all survivors of the horrors of life in a concentration camp. The stories explore the costs of survival and the nature of common morality. The stories are rich and complex, and celebrate the power and resilience of the human spirit against all obstacles.

About this title

About the Author:

Primo Levi is an Italian novelist, essayist and scientist, whose works have been greatly influenced by his imprisonment at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwtiz in southern Poland.

He is also the author of THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, IF NOT NOW, WHEN?, THE MONKEY'S WRENCH and THE PERIODIC TABLE.

Synopsis:

This collection of 15 short stories reflect life and death in Auschwitz during the Second World War. Each story features a different protagonist, all survivors of the horrors of life in a concentration camp. They explore the costs of survival and the nature of common morality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141183896
• ISBN 13: 9780141183893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176