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Cover of The Path to the Spiders' Nests

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

โœ Scribed by Calvino, Italo

Book ID
108917250
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2013
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
265 KB
Series
Path to a Nest of Spiders
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141889597

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โœฆ Synopsis

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the adults' war.

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The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition
โœ Italo Calvino ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2000;1987, ๐Ÿ› Ecco ๐ŸŒ English โš– 115 KB ๐Ÿ‘ 1 views

Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses