Numbers in the Dark
Penguin Books
Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino s extraordinary writing career from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death They include witty allegories and wise fables a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip cat a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts and dialogues with Henry Ford a Neanderthal and the gloomy overthrown Montezuma
