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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, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985.

Italo Calvino

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