MarcovaldoA charming portrait of one mans dreams and schemes, by the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century (Guardian). In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and 60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current urban life. Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an

almost poetic

Ryder finds in his mother's closet a letter and a baseball signed by a Major League Baseball player

including Gabriella de la Cruz

Though they attempt to work with the colony A

and leap off a bridge

#1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker's Wife

and several previously unpublished pieces

Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943

As the bombs rain down on Liverpool

one wrong move could expose her—and doom her once and for all

of her story

Searching for a job that will take her out of the dangerous life she’s built