If On A Winter's Night A Traveller

Italo Calvino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099430894 ISBN 13: 9780099430896

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 1992

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.

Review:

"Breathtakingly inventive" (David Mitchell)

"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" (Salman Rushdie)

"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" (Lorna Sage Observer)

"A brilliant work of the imagination and the intellect working in union.And, by the way, it's very funny also" (Scotsman)

Book Description:

'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell