The first English publication of seventeen classic Primo Levi stories marks the twentieth anniversary of his death.
"In Levi's writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential."--Saul Bellow
A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."
"In Levi's writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential."--Saul Bellow
A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."
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Hardback Editions
April 2007 : Hardback
| Title: A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories Author(s): Primo Levi ISBN: 0-7139-9955-1 / 978-0-7139-9955-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Classics Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2007 : Hardback
| Title: Tranquil Star Author(s): Primo Levi ISBN: 0-393-06468-9 / 978-0-393-06468-1 (USA edition) Publisher: WW Norton Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 2008 : Paperback
| Title: A Tranquil Star: Stories Author(s): Primo Levi ISBN: 0-393-33161-X / 978-0-393-33161-5 (USA edition) Publisher: W. W. Norton Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2008 : Paperback
| Title: A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) Author(s): Primo Levi ISBN: 0-14-118891-X / 978-0-14-118891-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Classics Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
January 2007 : Audio CD
| Title: Tranquil Star Author(s): Primo Levi ISBN: 0-7927-4884-0 / 978-0-7927-4884-7 (USA edition) Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Availability: Amazon More details... |
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