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If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino

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If On a Winter's Night a Traveller

Vintage Classics (1 Nov 2007)
9780099430896
| Paperback
272 pages | 128 x 196 mm | English
$ 7.99 | Value: $ 7.99
Dewey 813

Subject

  • Fiction / Literary
  • Italian Fiction
  • Postmodernism (Literature)

Plot

A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero of them all is you, the reader. 'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell 'A writer of dizzying ambition and variety, each of his stories is a fresh adventure into the possibilities of fiction' Guardian