THE PATH TO THE SPIDERS' NESTS by Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin [Trans.], read by Edoardo Ballerini
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Summary: A scintillating performance of Italo Calvino’s first novel, written when he was 23, just a few years after the end of WWII. A young cobbler’s apprentice becomes involved with a group of partisans in German-occupied Italy.