If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Italo Calvino, William Weaver

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Vintage
20 December 2023

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful

A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's genre-switching masterwork. A book of surprise and adventure but you, the reader, are the hero.

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas 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 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

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful

By: Italo Calvino
Translated by: William Weaver
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 348g
ISBN: 9781784878665
ISBN 10: 1784878669
Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.