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Invisible Cities

Italo, Weaver, William Calvino, Italo Calvino, William Weaver
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics)
Published: October 2, 1997
ISBN: 9780099429838
160 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail – each with a woman’s name…

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.’

This is a captivating meditation on culture, language, time, memory and the nature of human experience.

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