Numbers In The Dark

By: Italo Calvino

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Paperback | 28 May 2009 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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1.7 x 12.9 x 19.7

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Translated by Tim Parks

'There is true gold here . . . extraordinary' Sunday Times

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; revolt finally arriving at 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 . . . With touches of the sinister and the comic, the moral and the ridiculous, these dozens of stories are brilliantly inventive.

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'The author's command of detail and his fine, inventive imagination, his ability to turn ideas upside down and inside out, his awareness of the comic capacity of everyday life, are always ready to surprise and delight.' Literary Review

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