IF ON A WINTERS NIGHT A TRAVELLER (EVERYMANS LIBRARY) (HB)

Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, this is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book are constantly and comically frustrated.