The Periodic Table
Twenty-one chapters, each named for an element, run from a Piedmontese Jewish family's ancestors through a chemistry degree taken under the racial laws, the camps, and postwar work in a varnish factory. Some pieces are memoir and some are invented tales about matter and the men who handle it. A chemist's life told element by element; matter as memoir.
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- influenced by ↑ The Divine Comedy
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Closest analogues
- 50% · 7 shared
- 48% · 9 shared
- 48% · 8 shared
- 48% · 8 shared
- 45% · 9 shared
- 45% · 8 shared