Invisible Cities

£9.99

Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited. But Calvino is describing only one city – Venice. Invisible Cities has been described as Calvino’s most beautiful work.

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SKU: 9780099429838 Category: Tags: , Publisher/imprint : Vintage Classics
Page count : 148
Published on 2nd October, 1997

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In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ‘Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.’

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Weight 0.117 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1 cm
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