Baron in the Trees
«Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends»
Salman Rushdie
A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781784874223
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends»
Salman Rushdie
«Breathtakingly inventive»
David Mitchell
«The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists»
The Times
«Calvino is a wizard»
New York Review of Books