If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino''s new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter''s Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino''s stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading.

If on a Winter''s Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino''s singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue the