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Title: OUR ANCESTORS
By: Italo Calvino
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 009943086X
ISBN 13: 9780099430865
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Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 20 February, 1992
Pages: 400
Translated from: Italian
Description: A triptych of novels in one volume. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, aged 12, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; and Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour.
Synopsis: Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master storyteller.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Vintage
Returns: Returnable
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