If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

A novel built from beginnings...

You buy a book called If On A Winter’s Night a Traveller and sit down to read. The story stops mid-sentence. When you find another copy, it contains a different opening. Each attempt to continue leads to a new narrative that breaks off just as it gathers momentum.

As the Reader, you set out to track down the missing text. Along the way you encounter Ludmilla, another reader pursuing the same vanished book. What follows is a sequence of interrupted stories: thrillers, romances, political intrigues, each complete in its promise but not in its conclusion.

This novel turns reading itself into the central drama. The search for the next chapter becomes the plot. Every ending leads back to another beginning.

'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell

'A writer of dizzying ambition and variety, each of his stories is a fresh adventure into the possibilities of fiction' Guardian

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful

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	9781784878665
ISBN 10	1784878669
Title	If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Author	Italo Calvino
Series	Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2023-10-05
Number of pages	288
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