This is the Madison Books’ book club pick for November.

Available for in-store pick-up.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino (author) and William Weaver (translator)

Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular experimental novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before--offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers--in a truly unique work of metafiction--pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives.

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