The Path to the Spiders' Nests - Hardcover

Calvino, Italo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224040316 ISBN 13: 9780224040310

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1998

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Reseña del editor:

Set on the Ligurian coast during World War II, The Path to the Spiders' Nests tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice who lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spend as much time as he can at the local bar. When his friends dare him to steal a pistol from a Nazi soldier, he sets off on a series of picaresque adventures with a band of partisans. Calvino's portrayal of this band, seen through the eyes of the child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance, but also a moving coming-of-age story. First published in 1947, and reissued here in a revised translation that incorporates the changes Calvino himself made to the text, The Path to the Spiders' Nests is a bold, adventurours first novel animated by the formidable imagination that was to make Italo Calvino one of the most respected writers of the second half of this century.

Biografía del autor:

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He was an essayist and a journalist, and among his best-known works of fiction are Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. He died in 1985.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0224040316
• ISBN 13: 9780224040310
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192