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Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the adults' war. Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include "Cosmicomics" (1968), "Invisible Cities" (1972), and "If on a winter's night a traveler" (1979). He died in Siena in 1985. Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Path to the Spiders' Nests
• Author: Italo Calvino
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780141189734
• ISBN: 0141189738
• ID: 04027323
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 150 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. May 2009

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