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The Road to San Giovanni

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141189710

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 90g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Road to San Giovanni

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino's alchemical brilliance.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141189710

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 90g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. During the war he was a member of the Italian Resistance and joined the Communist Party, although he later left in 1957. One of the most respected writers of our time, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1981 he was awarded the prestigious French Légion d'Honneur. He died in Siena in 1985.

Italo Calvino

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