Last Comes the Raven - by Italo Calvino (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino's important early short story collections<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><strong>The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino's important early short story collections</strong> <p/> Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection--one of Calvino's earliest--take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storyteller's later style. A trio of gluttonous burglars invade a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In the title story, a compact masterpiece of shifting perspectives, a panicked soldier tries to keep his wits--and his life--when he faces off against a young partisan with a loaded rifle and miraculous aim. Throughout, Calvino delights in discovering hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. <p/> Stories from<em> Last Comes the Raven</em> have been published in translation, but the collection as a whole has never appeared in English. This volume, including several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein, is an important addition to Calvino's legacy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"In <em>Last Comes the Raven</em>, a collection of early stories, we find the man behind the magician . . . Calvino was drawn to narratives as pure and potent objects; in this collection, he examines but does not deconstruct them . . . There is the author's trademark ironic distance and careful wit, as well as tinges of surrealism. But, where the mature Calvino found a style that was supremely arch, alien, and spare, his more mimetic stories retain the funk of the human . . . The reader of <em>Last Comes the Raven</em> registers a bloom of social feelings: sympathy, recognition, curiosity." <strong>--Katy Waldman, <em>The New Yorker</em></strong><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>ITALO CALVINO (1923-1985) attained worldwide renown as the author of <i>Invisible Cities</i><i>, </i><i>The Baron in the Trees</i><i>, </i> and numerous collections of fiction and essays. <p/> ANN GOLDSTEIN has translated widely from Italian, including the works of Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi, Alessandro Baricco, and others.
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