Structured as a series of conversations between a writer and Faussone, a travelling Italian rigger, this is a radical text of Levi's that I've loved a long time.

Faussone speaks in the language of cables, loads, errors, and improvisation. Meaning emerges through doing—through attention, responsibility, and the refusal of shortcuts. Levi offers work as a way of being in the world: flawed, precise, and accountable to reality.

Written late in Levi’s life, The Wrench is often overlooked beside his Holocaust testimony, but it may be his most intimate book—a defence of craft, competence, and dignity in an age that prefers slogans to skill.