by Italo Calvino · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472231849
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«El sendero de los nidos de araña» is the novel by Italo Calvino published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (236 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Pin, a boy living in Italy during the Second World War and the Resistance. After stealing a German soldier's pistol, he hides it in a secret place he calls «los nidos de araña»; arrested and imprisoned, he escapes with a communist fighter nicknamed the Red Wolf and ends up joining the partisans. The novel shows the war from a child's perspective, with a mix of realism and fable.
It belongs to the Andanzas collection from Tusquets Editores; the Spanish edition is from 1990, although the novel was originally published in Italian in 1947.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Italian narrative and stories about the Resistance during the Second World War.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
