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 ...
- ISBN10 0307539008
- ISBN13 9780307539007
- Publish Date 4 February 2009 (first published 14 November 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Vintage
- Format eBook
- Pages 176
- Language English