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

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Ingenious * Mail on Sunday *
Breathtakingly inventive
The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century * Guardian *
Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends
A devastating, wonderfully ingenious parody of all those dreary best-sellers you buy at the airport... It is a "world novel": take it with you next time you plan to travel in an armchair * Observer *

If on a Winters Night a Traveller

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    A Paperback / softback by Italo Calvino, William Weaver

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 20 February 1992
      ISBN-13 9780099430896
      978-0099430896
      ISBN-10 0099430894
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Italo Calvino

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. 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.

      Trade Review
      Ingenious * Mail on Sunday *
      Breathtakingly inventive
      The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century * Guardian *
      Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends
      A devastating, wonderfully ingenious parody of all those dreary best-sellers you buy at the airport... It is a "world novel": take it with you next time you plan to travel in an armchair * Observer *

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