Le sentier des nids d'araignées by Italo Calvino
In my late teens, I discovered Italo Calvino, and started buying all of his books. But the fad passed, and most of them stayed unread. I unearthed them recently and decided to make my way through them, starting with Le sentier des nids d'araignées (The Path to the Nest of Spiders), his first novel released soon after WW2 and focusing on the coming of age (of sorts) of Pino, a kid in the sidelines of German occupation of Northern Italy as the fascist regime starts to crumble. It's a pleasant read and packs quite a punch although devoid of the formal and narrative strangeness that pervades Calvino's later works.
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