The Wrench

Primo Levy has been one of my great discoveries in the last 12 months, I started with the Periodic Table after seeing it referenced somewhere and have never looked back. Aside from being a great writer he was also a fascinating character: student, chemist, partisan, holocaust survivor, writer and a keen observer of humanity.You can take The Wrench on many different levels, but at it's most basic level it is a charming well written, amusing narrative where the tales of the rigger are retold by the chemist. I'll leave the other levels for the prospective reader to discover.

A bit of a slow starter but if you are into Primo Levis work- this is a book worth foregoing all your other Christmas presents for..A series of stories related by narator and theme that builds into an experence in itself. It is, as usual, beautifully written, totally engaging, funny and slyly subversive. Fantastic.

All books by Primo Levi should be read by people of all ages. Perhaps a must for high school level.

Bought on advise, thoroughly enjoyed strolling through Primo's mind.

Couldn't get on with the slow inconsequentialness of the narrative - there are gems of insight but the lack of plot and development lost my interest

Love this writer

great book especially for people with engineering background

This is a fairly short book. The narrator is a an industrial chemist who is stuck somewhere in Russia with a rigger ,also from Italy. The bulk of the book concerns stories related by the rigger , who has worked in various far flung places.One would not have thought that the technical detail would be interesting. However,as the book progresses the rigger talks more and more about the people he encounters, including his two aunts, who are always trying to fix him up with girlfriends.Some parts of the book are very funny, and the rigger's observations of humanity are full of insight and have certainly made me think.By the time I'd finished it I realised that this was a remarkable book. Primo Levi wrote in Italian, so they're all translations, but like all great writers, the translated version is excellent. I shall read more.

thank youno offense but I don't have so many words to write on the subjectI feel it is enough to be saitisfied