Our Ancestors
Author: Calvino, Italo
ISBN: 9780099430865
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2002
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master storyteller.
ISBN: 9780099430865
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2002
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master storyteller.