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kat2's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.75
This book of essays, each named for an element, tells stories of a at Levi’s life as a chemist. Woven through is the story of WWII, from the rise of fascism in Italy through the war’s long after effects. Funny, evocative and memorable. My favorite, “Chromium,” includes an account of how he started writing after the war—from a chaotic outpouring of storytelling to the lucid building of a book that helped him live again. The book’s epigraph is a a Yiddish proverb: Troubles overcome are good to tell. Yes.
apleiades17's review against another edition
4.0
“I will understand this, too, I will understand everything, but not the way they want me to. I will find a shortcut, I will make a lock-pick, I will push open the doors.”
carmine1802's review against another edition
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4.5
merchantivory's review against another edition
4.0
today i know it is a hopeless task to try and dress a man in words, make him live again on the printed page, especially a man like sandro. he was not the sort of person you can tell stories about, nor to whom one erects monuments — he who laughed at all monuments. he lived completely in his deeds, and when they were over nothing of him remains - nothing but words, precisely.
tchaikovskys_ghost's review against another edition
challenging
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slow-paced
3.5
clemmyrose's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
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sad
fast-paced
4.75