Tim Parks

Italo Calvino

From the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities comes a rich variety of short fiction, including fables, tales, and "impossible interviews" on such themes as the implications of technology, the quest for truth, politics, and the nature of power. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

And Other Stories

Numbers in the Dark

coriander

Fallstreak

Nuno Figueiredo

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 ...

Numbers in the Dark And Other Stories

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