Invisible Cities [50th Anniversary Edition]
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Invisible Cities [50th Anniversary Edition]
Invisible Cities [50th Anniversary Edition]
Description
Description
Illustrated 50th Anniversary Edition - With an introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anthony Doerr
A beautiful new illustrated hardcover in the Mariner Classics line: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels--a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.
With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed...
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo--Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: stories about memory and desire, art and creation, life and death. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor realizes these fantastic places are more familiar than they appear.
With a brilliant new introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr, and dreamlike illustrations of the cities interspersed throughout, this edition breathes new life into Calvino's classic, a celebration of the story's profound invention and enduring insight.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"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
"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
"Italy's most original storyteller...Invisible Cities is an elegy, autumnal and melancholy." -- New York Times
"It's best, I think, to read Invisible Cities like a traveler--slowly, luxuriously, as if you have all the time in the world." -- NPR
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