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The Reawakening
Primo Levi · 2005 · 231 pages
[This is the author's] sequel to his ... memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of [the author's] liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. [The author's] railway travels take him through bombed-out cities and transit camps, and with keen insight he describes the former prisoners and Russian soldiers he encounters along the way.-Back cover.
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Russell Roberts
“title. Then Levi wrote The Truce. (It was issued in the US under the title The Reawakening. Surprise--The Truce is a much better title.) The Truce is the story of Levi's journey home after he left Auschwitz. It, too, is an incredible portrait of the human condition-- 3/n”↗