Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of
Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager
to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables;
a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat;
a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside
their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of
a series of brutal acts; and dialogues with Henry Ford, a Neanderthal and
the gloomy, overthrown Montezuma ...