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Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

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ISBN13: 9780156453806
ISBN10: 0156453800
Condition: Standard
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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.

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"Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant." Gore Vidal, The New York Review of Books
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About the Author

Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Itlay.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780156453806
Author:
Calvino, Italo
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Translator:
Weaver, William
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Polo, Marco
Subject:
Kublai Khan
Subject:
Biographical fiction
Subject:
Explorers -- Italy -- Fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Polo, Marco - Fiction
Copyright:
c197
Edition Number:
1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Series:
Harvest/HBJ Book
Publication Date:
May 1978
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
180
Dimensions:
8.01x5.43x.47 in. .39 lbs.
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