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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 ...
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Numbers in the dark and other stories, Italo Calvino
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Numbers in the dark and other stories
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Italo Calvino
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN10
- 0141189746
- ISBN13
- 9780141189741
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Humor, Short Stories, Politics, 20th century, Stories, Southern Europe, Italy, Society, Life, Emotions, Italian Literature, Social Critique, Communism, Narration, Socialism, Fables
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- 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 ...