The Baron In The Trees, Italo Calvino non fiction this New York Times bestseller

this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s

It retains all the clarity

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The Baron In The Trees, Italo Calvino non fiction this New York Times bestsellerCalvino's classic fable about independence, following a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life in an arboreal kingdom, translated by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein Cosimo di Rond, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopyhe hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth