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The Queen's Necklace

✍ Scribed by Italo Calvino; Tim Parks

Book ID
107257999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2011
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
41 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.'In these two stories from an inventive, comic master of the form, old friends and friendly rivals Pietro and Tommasso discover a treasure lost by the side of the road, and become suspected of a using a blameless chicken for devious ends. Italo Calvino's writing explores the fringes of these small, unusual scenes and finds incalculable wisdom and humour there.This book contains The Queen's Necklace and The Workshop Hen.

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