last came the crow

✨Heroes who play happily by the sea | beggars wrapped in fragrant leather clothes

✨The deaf man who led the mule through the artillery fire | The returning infantry who met the widow in black yarn

✨In the turbulent world, Calvino stands in the softest and brightest place

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✨Thirty stories accompany Calvino on his original literary path

✨Known as "the clearest path to the world of Calvino's novels"

✨The Simplified Chinese version is released for the first time, including the preface written by Italo Calvino

✨Illustrations drawn by Italian artist Riccardo Verde for immersive reading

【brief introduction】

With a "bang", the gunshot rang out, but the crow did not fall...

The little people in the chaotic era are unknown but shining brightly, which makes people feel distressed and surprising. The child with the rifle on his back, the German soldier who watched in horror at his perfect marksmanship, the partisan who dreamed of regaining his freedom on the way to shooting, the cunning little Moor who rented a mattress for half an hour to earn fifty lire, who was absorbed in licking the cream pastry. The thief and the policeman who forgot each other...Thirty stories accompany Calvino on his original literary path, clarifying and defining his poetic world: here is not polluted by anger and boredom, not by conflict Intensified, you can breathe the purest air.

【Celebrity recommendation】

Borges, Marquez and Calvino also dreamed a perfect dream for us, among the three, Calvino is the warmest and brightest.

—John Updike

Calvino's imagination is like a delicate balance of the universe, placed between Voltaire and Leibniz.

— Eco

Italo Calvino taught me that originality is as important as history itself.

— Pamuk

When the end of the world comes, I can't think of a better writer to keep me company than Italo Calvino.

— Rushdie

Italo Calvino is undoubtedly one of the most gifted Italian narrative writers, and "The Last of the Ravens" was written by such a young man. There are stories of pure magic and partisans, where even war becomes a fairy-tale theme, fresh and distant, like all fairy tales. This is where the talent of the young Calvino lies and where he is intimidating.

— Gianno Pombaloni

For a while, I seemed to understand, but then I didn't understand anything, because his mind was too complicated. Calvino's book is worth reading again and again.

——Mo Yan

I can't force you to like every one of his books, but I think you must like his idea: the art of fiction has infinite possibilities... I haven't explored the infinite yet, far behind Calvino.

——Wang Xiaobo

Critics like to compare Calvino with Nabokov and Borges, but in reality Calvino's influence was greater and more enduring. ... Calvino's death means the end of pure literature. At least for Western literature.

——Chen Xiaoming