by Italo Calvino
This book is Calvino at his most oblique, weird and science fictional. Worth a read if you're a fan, but if you haven't read any of his other work, start somewhere else: I'd suggest Invisible Cities.
I never know where I will end up when reading anything by Italo Calvino, but I do know that I will be in for an interesting journey. Having studied way too much physics and math for most anthropologists, I enjoyed letting my mind wander through Calvino's earthly evolution. The part that always seems...