A Man of Few Words: The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi - Hardcover

Greppi, Carlo

 
9781908906618: A Man of Few Words: The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1908906618 ISBN 13: 9781908906618
Verlag: Saqi Books, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Nobody knows how much I owe that man’, Primo Levi said of the bricklayer who saved his life at Auschwitz. I could never repay him.’ Levi was referring to Lorenzo Perrone, who at great personal risk smuggled food, letters and clothing to Levi and other prisoners. The soup might contain sparrows’ wings, prune stones, or even fragments of pulped newspaper, but it provided Levi with the 500 extra calories he needed to survive each day. Perrone said nothing as he left the mess tin by a half-constructed brick wall. In A Man of Few Words, Carlo Greppi pieces together Levi’s saviour, a near-destitute labourer with minimal formal education. Despite their stark differences, Levi and Perrone’s friendship survived the Holocaust and continued until Perrone’s tragic death. Levi never forgot Perrone. As his friend withdrew from the world, Levi tried persistently to preserve the memory of this man of few words who had saved his life, but who left few traces of his own behind.
Compassionate, worldly and prescient, Greppi brings to light a universal story about an individual who kept hope alive in one of the darkest times and places known to man.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carlo Greppi is an award-winning historian andauthor. He is the author of fourteen books, including Un uomo di pocheparole (A Man of Few Words), which has been translated into sixlanguages and sold more than 20,000 copies in Italy.

HowardCurtis is a British translator of French, Italian and Spanish fiction. He hastranslated the works of Gianrico Carofiglio, Luis Sepúlveda, Beppe Fenoglio andGeorges Simenon, among others, and has won the John Florio Prize and the PremioCampiello Europa for his translations.

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Verlag
Saqi Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908906618
ISBN 13 
9781908906618
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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