Synopsis
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 …