Review of "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
What a marvellous book! I wish I could remember whom or where it was recommended to me, a crisp high five is in order. But that sort of adds to the experience of If on a winter's night a traveller - & it is an experience - delving into chance & the absurd. What a turn of phrase this Italo Calvino has. Such a skilfully-wrought novel. Why haven't I heard of it, even in passing? I plan on reading it again & will be sad if it's immediately purged from my memory by some quirk of the universe or bureaucratic subterfuge. Or perhaps I won't, delightedly reading it for the first time then returning here to find my own review waiting for me.