Under the Jaguar Sun
Italo Calvino author William Weaver translator Martin McLaughlin editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:28th May '09
Should be back in stock very soon
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search desperately for the beguiling scents of lost women, from a Count visiting Madame Odile's perfumery, to a London drummer stepping over spent, naked bodies.
'The pleasure of these stories is intense: the flexibility and range of Calvino's imagination bring to them a kind of organic perfection as though they had not been written by a man but rather grown of their own accord' Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: 9780141189727
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 5mm
Weight: 78g
96 pages