# Numbers in the Dark

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- Book: [Numbers in the Dark](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/numbers-in-the-dark) ([Numbers in the Dark.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/numbers-in-the-dark.md))
- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-974-1
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2009-05-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 ...