The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi\'s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
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It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world.
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi\'s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew