The Truce

The Truce
Cover of the first edition. The drawing is by Marc Chagall.
AuthorPrimo Levi
Original titleLa tregua
TranslatorStuart Woolf
LanguageItalian
PublisherEinaudi (Italian)
The Bodley Head (English)
Publication date
1963
Publication placeItaly
Published in English
1965
Media typePrint (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
Pages253 (1st edition Italian)
222 (1st edition English)
ISBN0-349-10013-6
OCLC17221240

The Truce (Italian: La tregua), titled The Reawakening in the US,[1] is a book by the Italian author Primo Levi. It is the sequel to If This Is a Man and describes the author's experiences from the liberation of Auschwitz (Monowitz), which was a concentration camp, until he reaches home in Turin, Italy, after a long journey. He describes the situation in different displaced persons camps after the Second World War.