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Calvino, Italo
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Fiction
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1996
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English
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Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Calvino, Italo
- Book ID
- 108917753
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 327 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780141889573
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โฆ Synopsis
Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts; and dialogues with Henry Ford, a Neanderthal and the gloomy, overthrown Montezuma ...
Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in...
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