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A Man of Few Words

- The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi
Af: Carlo Greppi Engelsk Hardback

A Man of Few Words

- The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi
Af: Carlo Greppi Engelsk Hardback
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‘Nobody knows how much I owe that man’, Primo Levi said of his Italian compatriot Lorenzo Perrone, who saved his life at Auschwitz. ‘I could never repay him’. Each day for a period of six months, Perrone, who worked beside Auschwitz in desperate conditions, risked his own life to smuggle part of his own soup ration to Levi, quietly leaving the mess tin by a half-constructed brick wall. Without those extra five hundred calories, Levi could not have survived, and would probably not have written If This Is a Man, the first published account by a Holocaust survivor. In A Man of Few Words, Carlo Greppi pieces together the life of Lorenzo Perrone, a bricklayer from the Piedmontese town of Fossano, not far from Levi’s native Turin. Near-destitute and with minimal formal education, Perrone left very few traces of himself. Yet despite their stark differences – Levi was a middle-class chemist – their friendship survived the Holocaust and continued until Perrone’s tragic death. Levi never forgot Perrone. In every book he wrote, he mentions that he owes his life to a man named Lorenzo, and he returned persistently, in the last years of his life, to the man of few words who saved his life. Compassionate, worldly and prescient, Greppi brings us a story that has much to say about the world we live in today, about an individual who kept hope alive in one of the darkest times and places known to humankind.
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‘Nobody knows how much I owe that man’, Primo Levi said of his Italian compatriot Lorenzo Perrone, who saved his life at Auschwitz. ‘I could never repay him’. Each day for a period of six months, Perrone, who worked beside Auschwitz in desperate conditions, risked his own life to smuggle part of his own soup ration to Levi, quietly leaving the mess tin by a half-constructed brick wall. Without those extra five hundred calories, Levi could not have survived, and would probably not have written If This Is a Man, the first published account by a Holocaust survivor. In A Man of Few Words, Carlo Greppi pieces together the life of Lorenzo Perrone, a bricklayer from the Piedmontese town of Fossano, not far from Levi’s native Turin. Near-destitute and with minimal formal education, Perrone left very few traces of himself. Yet despite their stark differences – Levi was a middle-class chemist – their friendship survived the Holocaust and continued until Perrone’s tragic death. Levi never forgot Perrone. In every book he wrote, he mentions that he owes his life to a man named Lorenzo, and he returned persistently, in the last years of his life, to the man of few words who saved his life. Compassionate, worldly and prescient, Greppi brings us a story that has much to say about the world we live in today, about an individual who kept hope alive in one of the darkest times and places known to humankind.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781908906618
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1908906618
Kategori: Holocaust
Udg. Dato: 23 jan 2025
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 238mm
Højde: 284mm
Forlag: Saqi Books
Oplagsdato: 23 jan 2025
Forfatter(e): Carlo Greppi
Forfatter(e) Carlo Greppi


Kategori Holocaust


ISBN-13 9781908906618


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 256


Udgave


Længde 29mm


Bredde 238mm


Højde 284mm


Udg. Dato 23 jan 2025


Oplagsdato 23 jan 2025


Forlag Saqi Books

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