Under the Jaguar Sun

AvItalo Calvino,Martin Mclaughlin

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search desperately for the beguiling scents of lost women, from a Count visiting Madame Odile's perfumery, to a London drummer stepping over spent, naked bodies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-05-28
Mått:129 x 197 x 7 mm
Vikt:86 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Penguin Modern Classics
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9780141189727
Översättare:William Weaver

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Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino 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.

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'The pleasure of these stories is intense: the flexibility and range of Calvino's imagination bring to them a kind of organic perfection as though they had not been written by a man but rather grown of their own accord' Sunday Telegraph