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**A** New York Times **Notable Book of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the **Washington Post **and** Library Journal **
A Holiday Gift Guide Selection in the** San Francisco Chronicle **and** Newsday **
A** New York Times Book Review **Editors’ Choice Selection**
The Complete Works of Primo Levi **, which includes seminal works like** If This Is a Man **and** The Periodic Table **, finally gathers all fourteen of Levi’s books―memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction―into three slipcased volumes.**
Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that “quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest’s most astute intelligence,” has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for *If This Is a Man* , his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi’s body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers culminates in this publication of *The Complete Works of Primo Levi*. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Levi’s fourteen books―memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction―into three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Levi’s writing as a “triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.” The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of “one of the most valuable writers of our time” (Alfred Kazin).
*The Complete Works of Primo Levi* features all new translations of: *The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other People’s Trades* , and *If Not Now, When?* ―as well as all of Levi’s poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English.