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Before Calvino was a eminence of world literature (particularly for his experimental 1970s novels Invisible Cities and If On a Winter's Night A Traveller), he spent almost two years fighting in the Alps with the Italian resistance movement during World War 2. Immediately after the war, he turned to writing, and this slim first novel of his attempts to capture aspects of wartime and life in the resistance.
Set along the coast near the French border, where Calvino grew up, it features an adolescen ...more
Set along the coast near the French border, where Calvino grew up, it features an adolescen ...more
Calvino feels like a new world to me and this, as his first novel, brings the distant struggle against fascism in Italy in WWII, yet another glimpse into a past that we are not so far removed from.
Feb 07, 2015
Deedee
marked it as to-read
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Terri
marked it as boxall-s-1001
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Jonathan
marked it as to-read
