- Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 9780141189741
- Length: 288 pages
- Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 130mm
- Weight: 217g
- Price: £9.99
Numbers in the Dark
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Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts; and dialogues with Henry Ford, a Neanderthal and the gloomy, overthrown Montezuma ...
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- Paperback 2009
- Ebook 2013