Periodic System

" Periodic system " as well as books published before in Russia "Is it Human? " And "Respite", have brought to Italian writer Primo Levi (1919-1987) world popularity. The chemist by education, he has given stories names of elements of the table of Mendeleyev. Having begun with the ancestors-Jews which have located Italy in XVI century, Levi recollects family legends, student's years, the terrible days lead in Osvencime. It is history of the young man which tragical destiny was defined with monstrous events of the last century.