Product Description

These nine adventures and two longer tales achieve an almost miraculous balance between the real and the imaginary, the familiar and the fabulous. (1994)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1619754 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-24
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

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One of the warmest and gentlest collections of stories by Calvino, and one of the most grounded in the real world. Lovely and elegant prose that lolls in your imagination like a story whispered into your ear on late spring day.

About the Author
Italo Calvino (15 October 1923-19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and America, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.