Author: Primo Levi
Unique memoir examining people and places from his life by way of the elements. Reminded me very much of Mike Edwards' work on the atomic weight of guilt, in a less diect way.
Levi survived Auschwitz and has written other books about that experience. He touches on this only in crossing paths with a German chemist that he'd known there, and the correspondance they engaged in post war.
I liked the disjointed nature of the piece and read many chapters out of order, depending on the element under discussion.
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