If On A Winter's Night A Traveller

Nov 8, 2025 2:47 PM

Author:Italo Calvino

Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book - IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day

Reviews

A complex, glittering book

—— The Times

An extraordinary imaginative achievement

—— Times Literary Supplement

Indigo explores the nature of power, the human cost of Empire and the theme of dislocation... Vivid, gripping, intelligent

—— Independent on Sunday

Her prose has never been so lyrical, as she yokes Shakespearean references, colonial history and her own sensual experience of the Caribbean with a powerful feminine myth-making

—— Independent

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