More about the book
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' Guardian VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
Book purchase
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
- Language
- Released
- 2023
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Hardcover)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Italo Calvino
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1784878669
- ISBN13
- 9781784878665
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Fun, Stories, Southern Europe, Italy, Italian Literature, Magical Realism, About Books, Reading, Metafiction
- First published
- 1979
- Original title
- Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- 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' Guardian VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful