Speak You Also

Description

"In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as Henri, the ultimate survivor, the paradigm of the prisoner who clung to life at the cost of his own humanity.". "Now, after fifty years, Paul Steinberg speaks for himself. In an unsparing act of self-scrutiny, he traces his passage from artless adolescent to a ruthless creature determined to do anything to live. He describes his strategies of survival: the boxing matches he staged for the camp commanders, the English POWs he exploited, the maneuvers and tactics he applied with cold competence. Ultimately, he confirms Levi's judgment."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

I was in my junior year at the Lycee Claude-Bernard.

Excerpt

I was in my junior year at the Lycee Claude-Bernard.

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Other Editions

• Speak You Also: A Survivor's ReckoningPenguin Books, Limited2002-01-01
• Speak you alsoMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.2000-01-01
• Speak you alsoMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.2000-01-01
• Speak You AlsoHardcoverMetropolitan Books2000-10-12
• Speak You AlsoPenguin Books, Limited2001-01-01
• Speak You AlsoPaperbackPicador2001-12-07