If on a winter's night a traveller
Calvino, Italo2002
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Ten different and thoroughly dissimilar novels intertwine as the beginning of each book, interrupted at a critical moment of suspense, leads into yet another novel reflecting yet another literary mode. 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
Main title:
If on a winter's night a traveller / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, [2002]
Collation:
258 p. ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1981.
ISBN:
9780099430896 (pbk)
Dewey class:
853.914
LC class:
PQ4809.A45
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
738813