Classics, Anthologies, Manners and customs, Italy, Italian literature, Short Stories, Italian, Cosmology 

Penguin modern classics. 

When the moon was closer to the earth, he would once a month, when its orbit made it possible climb a ladder to its scaly surface. He remembers life on the nebulae when matter first began to exist, causing great confusion and destroying his grandmother's pillow. As a child, he used the curve of space to play marbles with brand-new atoms. With the rest of his family, he evolved to walk on land only his great-uncle stubbornly remained a fish. And when the rest of the Dinosaurs died he was surprised to be greeted with gracious kindness instead of mortal fear by the new inhabitants of the Earth. This is the life of Qfwfq, the unique narrator of Italo Calvino's comic stories of the strangeness of the universe. They are extremely funny, imaginative beyond the scope of the galactic distances they conjure, beautifully written and absolutely unforgettable. This new collection is the first complete edition in English and includes seven stories never before translated.  

Genre/Form: Short stories
Italian fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Italo Calvino; M L McLaughlin; Tim Parks; William Weaver
ISBN: 9781846141652 1846141656
OCLC Number: 312626676
Language Note: Translated from the Italian.
Description: [xxv], [402] pages ; 23 cm.
Contents: The distance of the moon --
At daybreak --
A sign in space --
All at one point --
Without colours --
Games without end --
The aquatic uncle --
How much shall we bet? --
The dinosaurs --
The form of space --
The light-years --
The spiral --
More of Qfwfq --
The soft moon --
The origin of the birds --
Crystals --
Blood, sea --
Mitosis --
Meiosis --
Death --
t zero --
The chase --
The night driver --
The Count of Monte Cristo --
The mushroom moon --
The daughters of the moon --
The meteorites --
The stone sky --
As long as the sun lasts --
Solar storm --
Shells and time --
World memory --
Nothing and not much --
Implosion --
The other Eurydice.
Series Title: Penguin modern classics.
Other Titles: Cosmicomiche.
Responsibility: Italo Calvino ; translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver.