The Baron in the Trees

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Beschreibung

<p><b>One act of childhood defiance becomes a lifelong experiment in freedom. </b></p><p>From the age of twelve, Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living high in the trees.</p><p>He walks along paths made from twisted olive branches, makes his bed in a holly oak, bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark and keeps an aerial library of the books with which he educates himself in philosophy and mathematics.</p><p>Suspended among the leaves, Cosimo encounters bandits and pirates, conducts a passionate love affair and watches the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution and Napoleon pass beneath him.</p><p><i>The Baron in the Trees</i> is a classic literary fable about independence, imagination and political idealism. Playful, philosophical and wonderfully inventive, Italo Calvino's novel turns one boy's act of defiance into a lifelong experiment in freedom.</p><p><b>'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie </b></p><p><b>'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' <i>The Times </i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781784874223

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 125 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Vintage Publishing