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The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi

The Periodic Table
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Author: Primo Levi
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-04-04
ISBN: 0805210415
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Schocken

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Book Review: A surprise, a delight, a writer you'll be glad you met.
Summary: 5 Stars

Unique and magical, a chemist's life, each chapter centered on one element and its relationship to the author and those around him. Mercury, Lead and Carbon are imaginary, the rest autobiographical. My favorite chapter is the story of the chemists at lunch, and the slice of onion in the linseed oil. But they're all good, even "Argon", the inert gas that serves in Levi's gentle portrait of his family. (Aren't most of our families, well, pretty inert? Yeah.) I wish I could write about MY life and work with half the beauty that Levi writes about his. Practice, man, practice!

Levi is Italian and writes in Italian- the book I read was a translation and I heartily commend the translator for a superb job. To produce something so concise, so laugh-out-loud funny, so telling and reflective, in a different language than it was originally written in! Nearly as skillful as writing the original book. Well done!

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