What is Primo Levi's highest-rated book?

"The Wrench by Primo Levi" is Primo Levi's highest-rated book on LuvemBooks, with a reader rating of 4.5/5.

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We have reviewed 1 book by Primo Levi.

What genres does Primo Levi write?

Primo Levi's books span genres including Literary Fiction, Fiction.

When was Primo Levi born?

Primo Levi was born in 1919 and passed away in 1987.

Primo Levi - Author Profile

Primo Levi

Italian

1919 - 1987

Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.

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The Wrench by Primo Levi

4.5/5

The Wrench (published in the U.S. As The Monkey's Wrench) is Primo Levi's most light-hearted novel — a celebration of skilled labour, human ingenuity, and the art of the tale, told through the unlikely friendship of a globe-trotting rigger and a chemist narrator. First published in Italian as La Chiave a Stella in 1978, it stands as a warmly comic departure from Levi's better-known Holocaust testimony, and remains one of his most distinctive and underappreciated works.

Reviewed Jul 6, 2026

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