If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 20/02/1992
£9.99
Synopsis
You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas 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 is you, the reader.
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780099430896
- Number of pages: 272
- Weight: 192g
- Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 16 mm
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
I personally didn't understand what this book was about, and didn't particularly enjoy the writing either....I wouldn't recommend this to anyone
Failed to captivate.
After reading the cover and the opening chapter in the shop, intrigued by its unique plot, I bought it and couldn't wait to start.
Excitedly, I put my cur... READ MORE
10/10, would marry this book.
This isn't the sort of book you read on the tube, or the bus, or in your lunch break. You have to be in the right mood, I'd recommend reading it under a pl... READ MORE
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Seems like a highly enjoyable book. I started it almost as soon as I got home from the bookshop. However, my copy had a weird printing error starting on pa... READ MORE
Boring, boring, boring
I have had to force myself to continue with this book. It is uninspiring, tedious, self-indulgent ... Don't waste your money or time on it.
Brilliant. Highly recommend.
This is the kind of book you may find confusing at first. However, when you get into it and start to begin to understand the plot and what the book (author... READ MORE
I would give this book 6 stars
This book is quintessential post modern literature. You are taken on a journey of a meaningless search for structure only to find none and therfore are con... READ MORE
Inventive and escapist
A wonderfully inventive slice of escapism and a great influence on David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas in particular. A real exercise in creativity.
The best novel ever written?
I would go as far to argue the case. It is certainly my favourite novel of all time. The prose is inventive, and, though sometimes clumsy in translation, t... READ MORE
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