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Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino

Difficult Loves: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Difficult Loves audiobook runs 7.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini (about 5.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.7listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2017released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish Difficult Loves at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.7 hours, it runs longer than 66% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini narrates 448 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,500 hours in all.

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About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

631 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Difficult Loves is an audiobook by Italo Calvino: a 7.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Edoardo Ballerini, released December 1, 2017, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.7 hrs
Narrated by
Edoardo Ballerini
Released
December 1, 2017
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9781501963636

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Difficult Loves audiobook?

Difficult Loves runs 7.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.

Is the Difficult Loves audiobook free?

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Who narrates Difficult Loves?

Difficult Loves is narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.