EAN: 9781784874223

THE BARON IN THE TREES - ITALO CALVINO KARTONIE...

'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

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