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Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. As always with Calvino, nothing is quite as it seems.

'Delightful and rewarding as always' Observer

'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times

Marcovaldo

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Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 22/03/2001
    ISBN13: 9780099428541, 978-0099428541
    ISBN10: 0099428547

    Number of Pages: 144

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. As always with Calvino, nothing is quite as it seems.

    'Delightful and rewarding as always' Observer

    'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times

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