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If This Is a Man

Memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Memoir by Carlo Levi, published in 1945, giving an account of his exile from 1935-1936 to Grassano and Aliano, remote towns in southern Italy, in the region of Lucania which is known today as Basilicata

Cider with Rosie

1959 book by Laurie Lee . It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War . It has sold over six million copies worldwide

The Cyberiad

Series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisaw Lem, originally published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl and Klapaucius, the “constructors”.
The vast majority of characters are either robots or intelligent machines

Endurance

Ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue

The Dwarf

See: Der Zwerg The Dwarf (Cho Se-hui novel) The Dwarf (Lagerkvist novel) The Man from Another Place Talk:The Dwarf Help:Disambiguation Source:Wikipedia

The Leopard

Novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento

Interpreter of Maladies

Book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide