I can’t remember too much about what happens in Italo Calvino’s first novel The Path to the Spiders’ Nests. Only that its protagonist was a young boy caught up in the activities of Italian anti-fascist partisans in World War 2, and I enjoyed it. What made it significant for me as a reading experience isContinue reading “Novels that inspired The Hotel Hokusai #4 The Path to the Spiders’ Nests”