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Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. During the war he was a member of the Italian Resistance and joined the Communist Party, although he later left in 1957. One of the most respected writers of our time, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1981 he was awarded the prestigious French Legion d'Honneur. He died in Siena in 1985.
[Italo Calvino is] one of the world's best fabulists. <br>--John Gardner, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW <br> Calvino is a wizard. <br>--Mary McCarthy, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS <br> [Calvino] manages to charm and entertain the reader in the teeth of a scheme designed to frustrate all reasonable readerly expectations. <br>--John Updike, THE NEW YORKER <br> Calvino is that very rare phenomenon, a true original . . . If on a winter's night a traveler is breathtakingly complex and self-conscious (there are moments when it quite literally makes one gasp with astonishment) . . . [yet it] is one of the most accessible and enchanting novels written in the last fifty years. <br>--from the Introduction by Peter Washington
