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Original Title:	Se non ora, quando?
ISBN:	014118390X (ISBN13: 9780141183909)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Russian Federation Germany
Literary Awards:	Premio Viareggio (1982), Premio Campiello (1982)

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Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive, and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army. A compelling tale of action, resistance and epic adventure, it also reveals Levi's characteristic compassion and deep insight into the moral dilemmas of total war. It ranks alongside THE PERIOD TABLE and IF THIS IS A MAN as one of the rare authentic masterpieces of the 20th century.

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Title	:	If Not Now, When?
Author	:	Primo Levi
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 331 pages
Published	:	September 7th 2000 by Penguin Classics (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War II. Holocaust. European Literature. Italian Literature

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This book tells another side of the Jewish experience during WWII, that of the partisans caught behind enemy lines. It wasn't entirely clear to me where this was set, as it moves around in Central Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Russia?). I was rather hoping that Book Drum would have had a profile, but alas it doesn't (yet). Unfortunately I got caught up in trying to find out where it was set, then forgot to write a review. However, several months later, I was going to take this book with me to release

What I learned from this book: the meaning of Israel."For the Russians, a longing for home was not an unreasonable hope, even probable: a yearning to go back, a call. For the Jews, the regret for their houses was not a hope but a despair, buried till then under more urgent and serious sorrows, but latent always. Their homes no longer existed: they had been swept away, burned by the war or by slaughter, bloodied by squads of hunters of men; tomb houses, of which it was best not to think, houses

This was in many ways a breath of fresh air in Holocaust literature; reflective of the horrors yet focusing more on WWII itself and all the other things that were happening to the Jews outside of the camps. It was nice learning about the partisans and the underground survivors, and how Italy drew all the Jews from everywhere in preparation for a new life. In a way, it was a period that I already knew a lot about from previous literature, but delivered in a different way, focusing on a different

Well worth reading. Not the sort of book I would usually choose - I feel very ignorant about the background (Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trying to survive in the 2nd World War) but it's very readable because the main character is so human and believable.

In World War II, there were a lot of confusing times. It wasn't simple time of grand armies fighting, not for everyone. This is the story of a band of Jewish partisans who come together by accident as the various people drift together. The group fights their way across the countryside, seeking someplace safe-- from the Nazis, the citizens with anti-Semitic prejudice, and other bands crossing back and forth between freedom fighters and bandits. They try and find their way to hold on to their

I really wanted to give this book a higher mark, but it never totally engaged me at any point. The situation is very interesting, however; Jewish Red Army partisan groups working their tricky way through Eastern Europe in the closing 18 months of WW2. A ragtag, ever changing band of dissimilar folk, from different armies and who often dont even speak the same language. Unwanted and often attacked by their allies as well as the enemy.The novel convincingly portrays the life: boredom, hunger,

Born into a Jewish family, Primo Levi could not have foreseen the future that lay ahead of him.With the rise of fascism, the chemist/writer would get caught up in what seemed a civil war in the German zone where Italians fought Italians and fascists fought anti-fascists, Levi was arrested for resistance activity, and by train left Turin, passing the Mole Antonelliana, a major landmark building, little did he realize he would pass the same building entering Turin again in 1945. He was a lucky