{"product_id":"a-tranquil-star-stories-9780393331615","title":"A Tranquil Star: Stories","description":"These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was \"one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLevi, Primo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePrimo Levi\u003c\/strong\u003e (1919-1987) was an Italian chemist and writer, best known for his memoirs \u003cem\u003eIf This Is a Man\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Periodic Table\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoldstein, Ann:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAnn Goldstein\u003c\/strong\u003e, the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Works of Primo Levi\u003c\/em\u003e and the award-winning translator of Elena Ferrante's novels, is a former editor at \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBastagli, Alessandra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Alessandra Bastagli is the translator of Primo Levi's stories in \u003cem\u003eA Tranquil Star\u003c\/em\u003e and his essays in \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Works\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in New York.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872604492050,"sku":"9780393331615","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_85ae9057-7b80-4735-a4e4-38df0e5ee2d6.jpg?v=1737902648","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-tranquil-star-stories-9780393331615","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}