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What the critics say

Breathtakingly inventive
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The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century
- Guardian

Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends
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A devastating, wonderfully ingenious parody of all those dreary best-sellers you buy at the airport... It is a 'world novel': take it with you next time you plan to travel in an armchair
- Observer

A brilliant work of the imagination and the intellect working in union.And, by the way, it's very funny also
- Scotsman