Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER like no other, with Italo Calvino, the master of post-war experimental fiction, and his mind-bendingly brilliant novella about a travelling band of Tarot readers. A magical, mystical novella about the art and power of storytelling, this is Italo Calvino's miniature masterpiece. A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then in a tavern. Having mysteriously lost their powers of speech, they must tell their tales using only a deck of tarot cards. As their stories interlink and overlap, a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of the human quest for meaning unfolds. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

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ISBN13: 9781529980837
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 144
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Publication Date: 20 Oct 2026
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.7(H)x13(L)x1.1(W)122
Weight (gm): 122

Author Biography

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) is regarded as one of the most influential and imaginative writers of the post-war twentieth century. Best-known for his genre-bending, experimental fictions Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Calvino forged a style that was predicated on the playful and surreal aspects of the literary imagination.

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