# The Path to the Spiders' Nests

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- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-973-4
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2009-05-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.