111 Book Review: If on a winter’s night a traveler
If on a winter’s night a traveler (Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore)
by Italo Calvino
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler….”
Thus begins Italo Calvino’s novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler, an ode, a love song, a memoir, a mystery, a celebration, and an adventure — all tightly wound into one — of the Reader’s quest to finish a good book.
The story begins in that terrible and wonderful labyrinth that both haunts and delights all lovers of literature: the local bookshop. What follows is a network of storylines that enlace (and intersect) in such imaginative ways that all the way to the final page, you’ll ask, anxious to hear: What story down there awaits its end?
TL;DR: Book-nerd-turned-chick-magnet-for-other-book-nerds gets lit AF
My rating: 10 out of 11 Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time To Reread
Get it here:
- IndieBound (print, U.S.)
- Better World Books (print, worldwide)
- Apple Books (electronic)
- Google Play Books (electronic)
- Google Play Books (audio)
Oh, you liked it? Well then, try: The Book Thief (for book-centered books), Don Quixote (for the narrative layering), Frankenstein (for a well-nested story)
