Author: Italo Calvino

This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important p...

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman RushdieFrom the age of twelve, ...

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories.Penguin ...

'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo C...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life she...

A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cas...