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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Italo Calvino, William Weaver

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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.

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

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9780099430896
Published Date:
20/2/1992
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight:
191g
Category:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780099430896


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