Under the jaguar sun

Italo Calvino

In these three witty and fantastical stories, Italo Calvino explores the sensory aptitudes of the body in taste, hearing and smell.

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I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest ? The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun

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Weight 0.073 kg
Dimensions 18 × 10.9 × 0.7 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

128

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

853.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K