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    Invisible Cities (Paperback) By (author) Italo Calvino, Translated by William Weaver

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    Short Description for 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.
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    Title
    Invisible Cities
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Italo Calvino, Translated by William Weaver
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 160
    Width: 129 mm
    Height: 198 mm
    Thickness: 11 mm
    Weight: 122 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780099429838
    ISBN 10: 0099429837
    Classifications
    Dewey: 853.914
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BISAC category code: FIC000000
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Publisher
    VINTAGE
    Imprint name
    VINTAGE
    Publication date
    02 October 1997
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Review quote
    "Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose... The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island" -- Jeanette Winterson "Whole chapters of unforced poetic prose in which insight and fantasy are perfectly matched-an exquisite world" Observer "'Invisible Cities is perhaps his most beautiful work-the artist seems to have made peace with the tension between man's ideas of the many and the one" New York Review of Books "The most beautiful of his books throws up ideas, allusions, and breathtaking imaginative insights on almost every page. Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited-Although he makes Marco Polo summon up many cities for the Khan's imagination to feed on, Calvino is describing only one city in this book. Venice, that decaying heap of incomparable splendour, still stands as substantial evidence of man's ability to create something perfect out of chaos" -- Paul Bailey Times Literary Supplement "Of all the Italian post-war novelists, Italo Calvino is the adventurer. He glitters, impersonal, brilliant and lasting" Financial Times
    Biographical note
    Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923. He grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985.
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    'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times
    Review text
    This is an infuriating and exquisite fantasy which takes outrageous liberties with maps. Marco Polo is brought before the Kublai Khan and obliged to describe 55 of the cities he has encountered on his journeys. There is the earth-hating town of Baucis where everything is raised on stilts, the spiderweb city of Octavia, the woven metropolis of Eudoxia where citizens are lost among the cloth and threads... Of course, you'll not find any of these mesmerizing places in an atlas unless it is an atlas of daydreams. These are cities far too playful and beguiling to be real. (Kirkus UK)
    Main description
    New edition. This title is only available from "Vintage Classics".