The Path to the Spiders' Nests
1st Edition
Published on 4. April 2013
192 pages
978-0-14-188959-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-14-188959-7 (9780141889597)
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Italo Calvino
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
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05/2009
Penguin Classics
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Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in1985, of a brain hemorrhage.
