The Washington Post, July 1st, 2007
A TRANQUIL STAR Unpublished Stories By Primo Levi Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli Norton. 164 pp. $21.95Primo Levi, the Italian Jewish chemist and writer who died 20 years ago, is best known for his 1959 memoir Survival in Auschwitz. But this new collection of stories -- all previously unpublished in English -- will surely surprise readers familiar with Levi as a "Holocaust writer" or even those who know the semi-autobiographical stories in The Periodic Table. A Tranquil Star is a cabinet of curiosities, in which the realistic pieces are ordinary compar...
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