The Periodic Table
ISBN:
9780141399447 (0141399449)
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 194
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Science,
World War II,
Short Stories,
Italian Literature,
Holocaust,
Chemistry
Chemistry as a metaphor for life. Blurb writers love phrases like that. They are short, succinct and intriguing. But how hard is it to write something that would deliver on such a promise?I had never read anything quite like ‘The Periodic Table’. It more than delivered – it exceeded my expectations....
I was expecting a book about, well, the Periodic Table, instead it is a collection of partly autobiographical, partly fictitious, partly historical short chapters about individual elements through the eyes of a chemist. It is very cleverly, wittily written, though at times rambles on incoherently. T...
Levi's series of essays based on the elements of the periodic table. By turns fascinating, hilarious and tragic as he takes moments from his time in Auschwitz, from his life after the war and mixes them with short pieces of fiction. Extraordinary and wonderful.
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