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
ISBN: | 9780099430896 |
Publication date: | 20th February 1992 |
Author: | Italo Calvino |
Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 258 pages |
Series: | Vintage Classics |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Satirical fiction and parodies Narrative theme: Love and relationships Fiction in translation |