If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Author:Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator) "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambiance, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, though which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story l... more »ines that intrigue them and one another. They are the true heroes of the novel, for what would writing be without readers?« less