Italo Calvino: Mr Palomar [1994] paperback

THE BOOK- 'Here, Calvino, probably Italy's leading novelist before he died, focuses a probing eye on one man's attempt to name the parts of his universe, almost as though Mr Palomar points in- walking the beach, visiting the zoo, strolling in his garden. Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku, with Mr Palomar reson a universe into the proverbial grain of sand'. - Time Out.