A review by machen27
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

I found it lovely, and continue to have great respect for the chemists of the past who, in many ways, had to do everything themselves, often a great risk. It's not just a book about chemists, it's a book whose context is the Holocaust, inescapable even if Levi does not describe it in detail. The rise and fall of fascism, and the aftermath of that atrocity are players in Levi's personal history, and they play an equally important role as the elements that chapters are named after.
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