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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and contemporary.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- First published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780436203916
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