If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller

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Ten different and thoroughly dissimilar novels intertwine as the beginning of each book, interrupted at a critical moment of suspense, leads into yet another novel reflecting yet another literary mode.

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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

Additional information

Weight 0.192 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 1.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Vintage Classics

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

258

Language

Edition
Dewey

853.914 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K