Loading cart contents...
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller: A special edition of the classic genre-defying novel
16.99 JOD
Please allow 2 – 5 weeks for delivery of this item
Description
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino’s genre-switching masterwork. A book of surprise and adventure but you, the reader, are the hero. 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.’Breathtakingly inventive’ David Mitchell’A writer of dizzying ambition and variety, each of his stories is a fresh adventure into the possibilities of fiction’ GuardianVINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
Additional information
| Weight | 0.348 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 2.8 × 13.8 × 20.4 cm |
| by | |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 288 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2023-10-5 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784878669 |
| About The Author | Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003. |
| Series |
Related products
-
![]()
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
-
![]()
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
16.00 JOD -
![]()
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
15.99 JOD -
![]()
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
20.00 JOD
