Numbers in the Dark - Italo Calvino

Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of 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 … 

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was a leading Italian writer known for imaginative fiction and insightful prose. He won major awards including the Viareggio Prize, the Bagutta Prize, and the Feltrinelli Prize.

ISBN: 978-0-141-18974-1