Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and
insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and
tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town -
particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the
town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German
sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the
spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the
adults' war. Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers,
has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple,
fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San
Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His
major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972),
and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in
1985. Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena
Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he
is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published
academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and
Italo Calvino among many others.
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