--- product_id: 49730394 title: "If This Is a Man / The Truce" brand: "primo levi, stuart woolf" price: "SAR 106" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/49730394-if-this-is-a-man-the-truce store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Same Day Dispatch NewMint Condition No Quibbles Returns If This Is a Man / The Truce **Brand:** primo levi, stuart woolf **Price:** SAR 106 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📚 Elevate Your Reading Game—Grab It Before It's Gone! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** If This Is a Man / The Truce by primo levi, stuart woolf - **How much does it cost?** SAR 106 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/49730394-if-this-is-a-man-the-truce) ## Best For - primo levi, stuart woolf enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted primo levi, stuart woolf brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Timeless Reads:** Dive into 'If This Is a Man / The Truce'—a must-have for every thoughtful library. - • **Secure Packaging:** Your purchase arrives in pristine condition, thanks to our guaranteed packaging. - • **Unmatched Quality:** Experience the allure of NewMint Condition books that feel brand new. - • **Hassle-Free Returns:** Shop with confidence thanks to our guaranteed no quibbles returns policy. - • **Lightning-Fast Delivery:** Order before noon and enjoy same-day dispatch—because your time matters. ## Overview Discover the profound narratives of 'If This Is a Man / The Truce' in NewMint Condition. Enjoy same-day dispatch for orders placed before noon, secure packaging, and a no quibbles return policy, ensuring a seamless shopping experience. ## Description With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a "magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known" - PHILIP ROTH ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Dimensions | 12.7 x 3.8 x 19.8 cm | | Edition | Revised ed. | | Isbn 10 | 0349100136 | | Isbn 13 | 978-0349100135 | | Item Weight | 354 g | | Language | English | | Print Length | 400 pages | | Publication Date | 1 July 1987 | | Publisher | Penguin | ## Images ![If This Is a Man / The Truce - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Dy4FrBZyL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Honour this man ........... *by on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 22 June 2015* A deeply humbling experience. We should all read this quiet account by Primo Levi, a young Jewish Italian chemist, who bore witness to the unspeakable horrors of incarceration in Monowitz-Buna, one of several camps which were collectively 'Auschwitz'. His youth and fitness spared him from extermination.Segregation - 'How old? Healthy or ill? - Thus, in an instant, our women, our parents, our children disappeared.''Indifferent SS men with faces of stone behaved with the calm assurance of people doing their normal duty of every day. A man staying an instant too long to say goodbye to his fiancée was knocked with a single blow to the ground. It was their everyday duty ............'And so it began. They arrive at the camp. A brightly lit sign over the door reads Arbeit Macht Frei - work gives freedom.Four days without water has given them a hideous thirst but a sign in the vast empty room, above the only tap reads Wassertrinken Verboten. He sees the sign as a joke for 'they' know we are dying of thirst - so he drinks but the water is tepid and sweetish with the smell of a swamp.'This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. ......... a huge empty room with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for something which will certainly be terrible, and nothing happens and nothing continues to happen. What can one think about? One cannot think any more, is like being already dead. .......... The time passes drop by drop.Later. Naked, shorn, stripped and tattooed he says - 'Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he love, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs,forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often easily loses himself. He will be a man whose life or death can be lightly decided with no sense of human affinity, in the most unfortunate of cases, on the basis of a pure judgement of utility. It is in this way that one can understand the double sense of the term 'extermination camp', and it is now clear what we seek to express with the phrase: 'to lie on the bottom'.I have not used my own words but those of Primo Levi to describe his manuscript, for that is what this book is - it would be insulting to his erudition, his dignity and courage. He survived the hell of the holocaust, living to tell the tale that the world must never forget.I urge you to read this book and then read it again to make quite sure it is seared in your memory. It is the very least we can all do to honour Primo Levi.'This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this ...... we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you doubt Auschwitz was a death camp, try to read this... *by on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 21 August 2026* This should almost be a compulsory read, especially for those who doubt the facts of the Holocaust. Primo Levi's description of his journey and time at Auschwitz, his survival and his long, complex return to Turin, Italy, after the liberation of Auschwitz on 27th January 1945 are both compelling and moving. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ vital memoir *by on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 1 February 2020* In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I have read what is probably the most famous memoir from a survivor. If This is a Man is, however, rather different from other such memoirs I have read, as its theme is not so much the detail of his lived experiences, or particular atrocities (though these are of course covered), but what Auschwitz and the Holocaust represented - in the author's words, "the demolition of man": "Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often easily loses himself."; and "if I could enclose all the evil of our time in one image, I would choose this image which is familiar to me: an emaciated man, with head dropped and shoulders curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen." Notwithstanding these bleak quotes, I did not find this memoir bleak, as throughout his year at Auschwitz, Levi survives by never losing an ultimate belief in human dignity and hope, though, paradoxically, "our wisdom lay in ‘not trying to understand’, not imagining the future, not tormenting ourselves as to how and when it would all be over; not asking others or ourselves any questions." The book ends with the Nazi abandonment of Auschwitz and the notorious death march (which Levi avoided only by virtue of being ill with scarlet fever at the time) culminating, after a ten day period of further struggling with the forces of cold, hunger and disease, with the Red Army liberating the camp on 27 January 1945.My edition was paired with its sequel the somewhat longer The Truce, which details the author's lengthy enforced peregrinations across eastern and central Europe to eventually get home well into the autumn of 1945. This is less immediately memorable as a read, but does contain descriptions of the many colourful characters of different nationalities with whom he makes his itinerant life. Finally, the book ends with the author providing lengthy answers to some of the most common questions he was asked in the post-war period by audiences to whom he spoke about his books and his experiences, to ensure the events of the Holocaust remained alive in the minds of succeeding generations as: "Strong though the words of If This is a Man are, they are still weak before the will to deny or forget." ## Frequently Bought Together - If This Is a Man and The Truce - The Periodic Table: A Memoir (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) - Survival In Auschwitz (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/49730394-if-this-is-a-man-the-truce](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/49730394-if-this-is-a-man-the-truce) --- *Product available on Desertcart Saudi Arabia* *Store origin: SA* *Last updated: 2026-09-28*