PenguinBooks
Penguin Blog RSS feeds

The Complete Cosmicomics

» Italo Calvino

Translator - Tim Parks

Translator - William Weaver

Penguin
Hardback : 28 May 2009

£25.00

Synopsis

Before the universe began to expand, when all of everything existed in a single point in space, Qfwfq was there. And afterwards - through the millennia, across galaxies and in different, shifting forms - he persisted.

He has some stories to tell.

A collection of enchanting stories, in revised translation, about the evolution of the universe. The characters, fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, disport themselves amongst galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms, and have time for a love life too.

'Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?'

Product details

Format : Hardback
ISBN: 9781846141652
Size : 135 x 216mm
Pages : 432
Published : 28 May 2009
Publisher : Penguin

The Complete Cosmicomics

» Italo Calvino

Translator - Tim Parks

Translator - William Weaver

£25.00


Related email updates

To keep up-to-date, input your email address, and we will contact you on publication or when the author releases another book.

Please alert me via email when:

This book is released in paperback

Delivery

Shipped within 24hrs.
FREE UK Delivery
until 31 Jan 2010