Marcovaldo South Australia with vibrant illustrations by Chaaya

with vibrant illustrations by Chaaya Prabhat

The story was fast-paced and kept me on the edge of my seat

selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses

magical childhood

Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography

Marcovaldo South Australia with vibrant illustrations by ChaayaTwenty stories, structured around the seasons as the yearly cycle revolves five times. This is Calvino's magical realist urban fantasy. Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. As always