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Vintage Classics: Last Comes the Raven

Italo Calvino


  • Random House - Vintage Classics
  • by Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun (Translator), Peggy Wright (Translator), Ann Goldstein (Translator), Ben Johnson (Translator), William Weaver (Translator)
These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving. Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden, a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In every story he reveals the hidden meaning beneath the surface of everyday life, and the ludicrousness of war.

ISBN 9781784878214 | EN | PB
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Publisher Random House - Vintage Classics
ISBN 9781784878214
Author(s) Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun (Translator), Peggy Wright (Translator), Ann Goldstein (Translator), Ben Johnson (Translator), William Weaver (Translator)
Publication date August 2023
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 256
Language(s) English ed.
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These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving.

Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden, a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In every story he reveals the hidden meaning beneath the surface of everyday life, and the ludicrousness of war.

Some stories from Last Comes the Raven have been previously available in the collection Adam, One Afternoon. This new expanded collection includes several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein and is an important addition to Calvino's legacy.

'In Last Comes the Raven, a collection of early stories, we find the man behind the magician' New Yorker