- Published: 6 July 2009
- ISBN: 9780141189734
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $29.00
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
New to Penguin Modern Classics, Calvino's first novel
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.
- Published: 6 July 2009
- ISBN: 9780141189734
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $29.00
About the author
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.
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