An enchanting book, by Italo Calvino

[lovmelovmycats]

If on a winter's night a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect, on a carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave -- What story down there awaits its end? -- he

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[ratontheroad]

We should read more Cavalo

[novangla]

I loooove this book! I need to re-read.

[lovmelovmycats]

It was such a trip!
Congrats on your engagement! Your flowers will be so adorable.

[sabotabby]

I loved that book.

[lovmelovmycats]

It's on my faves list now :)

[lovmelovmycats]

Really! Interesting. I read on Wikipedia that he was married to a translator. And there's the translator character in If on a winters night a traveler

I want to read his short stories.