Numbers in the Dark

von Italo Calvino

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 ...

• Reihe: Penguin Modern Classics
• Themen: Belletristik Besonderheiten Kurzgeschichten
• ISBN: 9780141189741
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2009
• Größe: 195 x 126 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd