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The Truce (La Tregua) is an autobiographical book by Primo Levi.

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<i>The Drowned and the Saved</i>

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<i>If This Is a Man</i>

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Other People's Trades is a collection of fifty-one essays written by Primo Levi between 1969 and 1985. According to Levi, the essays are "the fruit of my roaming about as a curious dilettante for more than a decade". Mainly written for his regular column in La Stampa, the Turin daily newspaper, the essays include book reviews, autobiographical snippets, exercises in homespun philosophy, and accounts of scientific curiosities.

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<i>The Truce</i> Autobiographical book by Primo Levi

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<i>Auschwitz Report</i> (book)

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<i>The Truce</i> (1997 film)

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