Italo Calvino Invisible Cities Paperback Book

Fiftyfive fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail each with a womans 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. 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 WintersonTouches inexhaustibly on the essence of the human urge to create cities, be in cities, speak of cities GuardianA subtle and beautiful meditation Sunday Times | Italo Calvino Invisible Cities Paperback Book