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One of Italy's leading men of letters, a chemist by profession, writes about incidents of his life in which one or another of the elements figured in such a way as to become a personal preoccupation Primo Levi's memoir of his Jewish family, life as a Jew, and being a chemist.

[This is the author's] sequel to his ... memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of [the author's] liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. [The author's] railway travels take him through bombed-out cities and transit camps, and with keen insight he describes the former prisoners and...