num_pages: 260
description: You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer’s error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero is you, the reader.
language: English
title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
titlecomplete: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
characters: Ermes Marana, Silas Flannery, Ludmilla Vipiteno, Irnerio, The reader, Lotaria Vipiteno
genres: Fiction, Books About Books, Magical Realism, Italy, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Italian Literature, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 93318
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Ars Translationis, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Ein Buch für die Stadt
publisher: Minerva