The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

One act of childhood defiance becomes a lifelong experiment in freedom.

From the age of twelve, Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living high in the trees.
He walks along paths made from twisted olive branches, makes his bed in a holly oak, bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark and keeps an aerial library of the books with which he educates himself in philosophy and mathematics.
Suspended among the leaves, Cosimo encounters bandits and pirates, conducts a passionate love affair and watches the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution and Napoleon pass beneath him.
The Baron in the Trees is a classic literary fable about independence, imagination and political idealism. Playful, philosophical and wonderfully inventive, Italo Calvino’s novel turns one boy’s act of defiance into a lifelong experiment in freedom.

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie
'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times

Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it beforeThis is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends -- Salman Rushdie
Breathtakingly inventive -- David Mitchell
The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists * The Times *
Calvino is a wizard * New York Review of Books *

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.

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ISBN 13	9781784874223
ISBN 10	1784874221
Title	The Baron in the Trees
Author	Italo Calvino
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2021-04-01
Number of pages	304
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