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A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it.

But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story.

You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero of them all is you, the reader.

'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

Paperback
Publication: 20 Feb 1992, Vintage Classics
ISBN: 9780099430896

Extent: 272 pages

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      Description

      A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it.

      But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story.

      You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero of them all is you, the reader.

      '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

      Paperback
      Publication: 20 Feb 1992, Vintage Classics
      ISBN: 9780099430896

      Extent: 272 pages

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