If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Name: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9781784878665
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A special edition of the classic genre-defying novel

By Italo Calvino

Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino is a unique novel that explores the experience of reading. The story revolves around two readers who engage with different fragmented stories, as they encounter mysterious interruptions that prevent them from completing each narrative. The book weaves multiple tales together, all while focusing on themes of love, identity, and the nature of storytelling itself.
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You might enjoy this book if you love clever storytelling with a twist. It combines a series of interrupted narratives with the reader's own evolving experience, offering a fascinating exploration of literary form and the act of reading itself. It's a delightful choice for those who appreciate metafiction and inventive, playful narratives.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS - Bound to be beautiful

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

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784878665

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Contributors:

Translated by William Weaver
Translated by William Weaver
Translated by William Weaver

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 204.0mm

Weight: 348g

Pages: 288

Collections

Fiction General Fiction Humour Italo Calvino Literary Fiction Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics

About the Author

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.