Author | Primo Levi |
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Original title | La tregua |
Translator | Stuart Woolf |
Language | Italian |
Publisher | Einaudi (Italian) The Bodley Head (English) |
Publication date | 1963 |
Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 1965 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback) |
Pages | 253 (1st edition Italian) 222 (1st edition English) |
ISBN | 0-349-10013-6 |
OCLC | 17221240 |
The Truce (Italian: La tregua), titled The Reawakening in the US,[1] is a book by the Italian author Primo Levi. It is the sequel to If This Is a Man and describes the author's experiences from the liberation of Auschwitz (Monowitz), which was a concentration camp, until he reaches home in Turin, Italy, after a long journey. He describes the situation in different displaced persons camps after the Second World War.