by Italo Calvino
bookshelves: spring-2014, iphone-library, ipad, e-book, wwii, summer-2014, italy, tbr-busting-2014 Read from April 21 to July 05, 2014 Description: Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a ...
Pin is an orphaned boy being raised by his prostitute sister. He bums cigarettes off the German soldier who frequents his sister's bed and drinks off the men at the local tavern. He mocks and sings for adults, with whom he is more at ease than with other kids. One day the local resistance committee ...
I am endebted to the editors of World Literature Today for their recent article on the literature of Liguria that led me to this absolute gem. The Path to the Nest of Spiders was an exciting find for several reasons: It is completely different from anything Calvino ever wrote after (it was his firs...
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