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NUMBERS IN THE DARK
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| By: |
Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0141189746 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141189741 |
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| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2009 |
| Series: |
Penguin Modern Classics |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Description: |
A collection of short stories covering the length of the author's writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. It includes fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; and a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts. |
| Synopsis: |
Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts; and dialogues with Henry Ford, a Neanderthal and the gloomy, overthrown Montezuma ... |
| Illustrations: |
integrated black and white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
| Returns: |
Returnable |