The path to the spiders' nests
By: Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun ; revised by Martin McLaughlin.
Contributors: Colquhoun, Archibald.; McLaughlin, M. L.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780060956585
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Sentiero dei nidi di ragno.
Description: "Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult patrons. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans.

Calvino's portrayal of these characters, seen through the eyes of a child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance but an insightful coming-of-age story.

Updated to include changes from Calvino's definitive Italian edition, previously censored passages, and his newly translated, unabridged preface - in which Calvino brilliantly critiques and places into historical context his own youthful work - The Path to the Spiders' Nests is animated by the formidable imagination that has made Italo Calvino one of the most respected writers of our time."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: A revision of the translation published in 1956 which incorporates changes made by the author to the work first published in 1947 and subsequently revised in 1964.