Description
First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. It tells the inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army and of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway travels take him through bombed-out cities and transit camps; with keen insight, he describes the former prisoners and Russian soldiers he encounters along the way.
An extraordinary account of faith, hope, and undying courage.
Endorsements
"a remarkable feat of literary craft." — Irving Howe