Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, originally published in 1979, is a stunning classic that imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities. The book presents an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. In this postmodern narrative, each chapter introduces ten different plots, styles, ambiances, and authors, all interrupted at moments of suspense. Together, these stories form a labyrinth of literature—known and unknown, alive and extinct—through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and attempt to read one another. This unique work of metafiction delves deeply into the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives, making it both profoundly insightful and surprisingly romantic. “Calvino is a wizard…There is no halting [this book’s] metamorphoses,” according to the New York Times Review of Books. Read more.