{"product_id":"9780544230958","title":"Into The War","description":"“This book deals both with a transition from adolescence into youth and  with a move from peace to war: as for very many other people, for the  protagonist of this book ‘entry into life’ and ‘entry into war’  coincide.” — from the Author’s Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese three stories, set  during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino’s memories of his own  adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight  in Mussolini’s army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian  youth brigades. The callow narrator of these tales observes the mounting  unease of a city girding itself for war, the looting of an occupied  French town, and nighttime revels during a blackout. Appearing here in  its first English translation, \u003ci\u003eInto the War\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Calvino’s  only works of autobiographical fiction. It offers both a glimpse of  this writer’s extraordinary life and a distilled dram of his wry,  ingenious literary voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“All three stories attest to the  potentially magical, transformative space of adolescence . . . The seeds  of the later Calvino — the fabulist who worked profound moral and  ethical points into his narratives — are all here.” — Joseph Luzzi, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123771556080,"sku":"9780544230958","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544230958_p0.jpg?v=1763711846","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544230958","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}