--- product_id: 47385367 title: "The Drowned and the Saved" brand: "primo levi" price: "1057108₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/47385367-the-drowned-and-the-saved store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # The Drowned and the Saved **Brand:** primo levi **Price:** 1057108₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Drowned and the Saved by primo levi - **How much does it cost?** 1057108₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/47385367-the-drowned-and-the-saved) ## Best For - primo levi enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted primo levi brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In his final book before his death , Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have already begun to forget about the Holocaust. His last book before his death, Levi returns to the subject that would define his reputation as a writer and a witness. Levi breaks his book into eight essays, ranging from topics like the unreliability of memory to how violence twists both the victim and the victimizer. He shares how difficult it is for him to tell his experiences with his children and friends. He also debunks the myth that most of the Germans were in the dark about the Final Solution or that Jews never attempted to escape the camps. As the Holocaust recedes into the past and fewer and fewer survivors are left to tell their stories, The Drowned and the Saved is a vital first-person testament. Along with Elie Wiesel and Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi is remembered as one of the most powerful and perceptive writers on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience during World War II. This is an essential book both for students and literary readers. Reading Primo Levi is a lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.38 inches | | Edition | Reissue | | Isbn 10 | 1501167634 | | Isbn 13 | 978-1501167638 | | Item Weight | 6.6 ounces | | Language | English | | Print Length | 208 pages | | Publication Date | June 20, 2017 | | Publisher | Simon & Schuster | | Reading Age | 1 year and up | ## Images ![The Drowned and the Saved - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Dj9pih51L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is one of the best books I have ever read *by on Reviewed in the United States June 29, 2016* This book is one of the best books I have ever read. Could not put it down. Would recommend it to anyone. The problems I had was trying to get my credit card to accepted when I went to check out. Message came back that card was declined...After updating my numbers, etc. I tried 3-4 more times and finally called Amazon the next morning.A long story short, I received 3 books and one more was sent to my granddaughter...Four books....Will keep the three received, giving some for gifts.Accounting system with Amazon needs some work guys. The next day the person I spoke with said that maybe I should check with my bank.....NOTHING IS WRONG WITH MY BANK/ACCOUNT. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ As important as a book gets *by on Reviewed in the United States August 4, 2007* It is redundant to praise this book or describe its background, which has been done very well by other reviewers. This was Levi's final wrestling with the implications of what he called the Lager (he didn't use the term 'Holocaust'), not only as he experienced it, but more generally.Just a few points that may be less obvious. Levi never uses the phrase "survivor guilt," and his choice of terms was never without consideration. Rather, he uses the term, "shame." The chapter that goes by that name is an enormously subtle and evolving one. Levi continues to probe the feeling as he recalls it after "liberation," and there are at least five different concepts of what that "shame" entailed, no one of which did Levi think was definitive. By the way, none of Levi's definitions are the same as the popular notion of "survivor" guilt - that one feels guilty simply for having survived while others did not. The closest he comes is to talk about surviving "in place of another," which is a more complex idea. It refers specifically to the nature of the camps themselves, a horrific "laboratory," as Levi put it, in which selections, influence, luck and more did mean that one's survival always came at someone else's cost. This is a sociological point. It would not the case, for example, for the survivor of a tornado or earthquake.Second, the "grey zone" is very often misinterpreted to suggest that perpetrators and victims met in some "middle ground" somewhere. Levi is definitive about this. The responsibility of the killers and the victims are in no sense, and in no context, equivalent. But in the squalid and horrific world that was the lager, there was an enormous range of types and characters. Levi is arguing mostly against what he calls "stereotypes" - convenient simplifications.Finally, it may be of interest that "the drowned and the saved" was intended by Levi to be the title of his first book, If This is a Man (known in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz). His publisher disagreed, although there is a chapter in If This is a Man called Drowned and Saved. Levi's preoccupation with the role in the camp of differences in power, privilege, luck, and alliances-of-convenience runs throughout his work. It is a topic that still deserves much more attention than it has received. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Part of a trilogy of Holocaust survivor accounts *by on Reviewed in the United States June 3, 2025* Levi, Weisel, and Amery are among three who survived the Nazi extermination camps. Weisel's Night is the "smoothest" literarily, and Amery (who eventually suicided) is the most trenchantly gloomy (to me). Primo Levi has piercing observations of both the victims and perpetrators, and seems to me to be thoroughly unsentimental about the hellish camps, and thus is closer to Dante's Inferno.All three are important for understanding the Holocaust. --- ## 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.vn/products/47385367-the-drowned-and-the-saved](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/47385367-the-drowned-and-the-saved) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-06-29*