Difficult Loves; Smog; A Plunge Into Real Estate

By Italo Calvino

Subjects: Translations from Italian, Fiction in English

Description: Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. “The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work,...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading” (Margaret Atwood). Translated by William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book