Numbers In The Dark

Numbers In The Dark Is A Collection Of Short Stories Covering The Length Of Italo Calvino's Extraordinary Writing Career, From When He Was A Teenager To Shortly Before His Death. They Include Witty Allegories And Wise Fables; A Town Where Everything Has Been Forbidden Apart From The Game Of Tip-cat; A Pitiable Tribe Watching The Flight Paths Of Guided Missiles From Outside Their Mud Huts; A Computer Programmer Considering The Possible Sequence Of A Series Of Brutal Acts; And Dialogues With Henry Ford, A Neanderthal And The Gloomy, Overthrown Montezuma ... Italo Calvino, 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 In1985, Of A Brain Hemorrhage.