by Alessandro Baricco · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433968203
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«City» is the contemporary fiction novel by Alessandro Baricco, published by Quinteto in paperback (393 pages, in Spanish).
Built like a city, the novel treats stories as neighborhoods and characters as streets. Set partly in the present day, with cars, telephones and televisions, it veers into a boxing tale in the radio era and a western. Among its inhabitants are a giant, a mute, a barber who cuts hair for free on Thursdays, and Gould and Shatzy Shell.
Originally published in 1999; this Spanish edition appeared in 2002 and is no. 25 of the Quinteto Bolsillo collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in fragmentary narrative structures and singular characters.
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a number of languages.
