Author: Calvino, Italo
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 17 April 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Archive' series.
Paperback | 112 pages
180 x 110 x 9 | 74g
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest … The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibres that absorb the sun
