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Road to San Giovanni

Road to San Giovani comprises five elegant autobiographical meditations written by Italo Calvino, who delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino’™s alchemical brilliance.