The Truce

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The Truce is a memoir by Primo Levi recounting his long, circuitous journey home through war-torn Europe after his liberation from Auschwitz.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
memoir
non-fiction book
adaptationType feature film
alsoKnownAs The Reawakening
author Primo Levi
countryOfOrigin Italy
describesEvent liberation of Auschwitz
repatriation of concentration camp survivors
follows If This Is a Man
genre Holocaust literature
war memoir
hasAdaptation The Truce (1997 film)
hasCharacter Cesare
Greek (Il Greco)
Mordo Nahum
Primo Levi
hasTranslation The Truce (English translation)
hasTranslator Stuart Woolf
isSequelTo If This Is a Man
languageOfAdaptation Italian
literaryForm autobiographical narrative
literaryMovement postwar Italian literature
mainSubject Primo Levi's journey home after liberation from Auschwitz
displaced persons in postwar Europe
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor detailed depiction of post-liberation journeys across Europe
reflection on moral and psychological consequences of the Holocaust
originalLanguage Italian
originalTitle La tregua
partOf Primo Levi's Auschwitz trilogy
publicationYear 1963
publisher Einaudi
settingPeriod post-World War II Europe
settingPlace Austria
Belarus
Hungary
Italy
Poland
Romania
Soviet Union
Ukraine
targetAudience adult readers
theme displacement
human resilience
identity
survival
the aftermath of genocide
timeSpanCovered 1945
1946


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