The Path to the Spiders' Nests

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

by Italo Calvino and Martin McLaughlin
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 04/04/2013

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Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the adults' war.

ISBN:
9780141889597
9780141889597
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-04-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Italo Calvino

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 our time, 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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