Camon's northern Italy was primitive and poor; little more than strong religious beliefs helped to sustain the populace through years of poverty, hunger, and disease.

Ostensibly a satirical look at psychoanalysis and its practitioners, this novel is also a serious social critique of modern man.

The first of his three classic autobiographical novels, The Fifth Estate chronicles the passing in our own time of an ageless civilization, that of the peasant world Camon was born into.

In conversations in Turin from 1982 to 1986, "Levi spoke of the war, of anti-Semitism, of the camps, of the German guilt, of the emergence of Israel, and of his own extraordinary life and his extraordinary work."--Cover.

This Thing Called Love is about a young girl who shares her story about her life and the various hardships that she experienced as a result of living with a father who is physically present but emotionally absent.

... Camon,'' Studi novecenteschi, 12(1985), 7–35. De Michelis, Cesare, ''Camon, Ferdinando,'' in Dizionario critico della letteratura Italiana, Torino: UTET, 1987. Dornetti, Vittorio, ''Sociologia e letteratura nel Quinto stato di Camon ...

... Camon to sit behind , the walls decorated with cheap pieces of art . Two men stood beside the desk , dressed in formal stewards ' clothing ; they would play the part of Camon's manservants . " What is this ruckus ? " a man asked ...

This is a story of a foster child named Marcella who is longing to have her own family. During her birthday, she got what she always wished for.

The lives of a group of Italian peasant soldiers near the end of WWII.

The main points of this book is to let the world know that God is real.