The Truce
Cover of the first edition. The drawing is by Marc Chagall. | |
| Author | Primo Levi |
|---|---|
| Original title | La tregua |
| Translator | Stuart Woolf |
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher | Einaudi (Italian) The Bodley Head (English) |
Publication date | 1963 |
| Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 1965 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback) |
| Pages | 253 (1st edition Italian) 222 (1st edition English) |
| ISBN | 0-349-10013-6 |
| OCLC | 17221240 |
The Truce (Italian: La tregua), titled The Reawakening in the US, is a book by the Italian author Primo Levi. It is the sequel to If This Is a Man and describes the author's experiences from the liberation of Auschwitz (Monowitz), which was a concentration camp, until he reaches home in Turin, Italy, after a long journey. He describes the situation in different displaced persons camps after the Second World War.