Last Comes The Raven Av Italo Calvino

<p><b>The first complete English-language edition of Calvino''s early short story collection.</b><br><br>These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving. Calvino''s war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden, a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In every story he reveals the hidden meaning beneath the surface of everyday life, and the ludicrousness of war.<br><br>Some stories from <i>Last Comes the Raven</i> have been previously available in the collection <i>Adam, One Afternoon</i>. This new expanded collection includes several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein and is an important addition to Calvino''s legacy.<br><br><b>''In <i>Last Comes the Raven</i>, a collection of early stories, we find the man behind the magician'' <i>New Yorker</i></b><