Cover art for The Periodic Table
Published
Popular Penguins, June 2010
ISBN
9780141399447
Format
Softcover, 194 pages
Dimensions
18cm × 11.2cm × 1.5cm

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In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training takes the elements of the periodic table as his inspiration. He ranges from young love to political savagery; 'Iron' honours the mountain-climbing resistance hero who put iron in Levi's student soul, while 'Cerium' recalls the improvised cigarette lighters which saved his life in Auschwitz.

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