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  Invisible Cities (Harvest/HBJ Book) (Paperback) By (author) Italo Calvino, Translated by William Weaver

  

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  Short Description for Invisible Cities 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 b...
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  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • Published: 03 May 1978
  • Format: Paperback 180 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780156453806 ISBN 10: 0156453800
  • Sales rank: 22,049

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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.