MarcovaldoAuthor: Calvino, Italo Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 22 March 2001 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 144 pages 198 x 129 x 10 108g Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic

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196 x 129 x 19 | 160g