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Title: Baron in the Trees, The
Author: CALVINO ITALO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2021
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
‘I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the
world ends’ Salman RushdieFrom the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo
makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees. He
walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in a holly oak,
bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark. An aerial library holds the books with
which he educates himself in philosophy and mathematics. Suspended among the leaves,
the Baron adventures with bandits and pirates, conducts a passionate love affair, and
watches the Age of Enlightenment pass by beneath him. ‘The most magically ingenious of
the contemporary Italian novelists’ The Times
ISBN: 9781784874223
Pages: 288