If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

This inventive novel speaks directly to you, the Reader, who sets out to read a new book by Italo Calvino and finds the copy defective. Your search for the rest of the story leads through a chain of opening chapters from very different novels, and brings you into contact with another reader, the Other Reader, as well as publishers, translators and forgers. Part detective story, part love story, it is a playful meditation on reading, writing and desire, and a landmark of postmodern fiction.