Invisible Cities Av Italo Calvino

<p><b>Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... </b><br><br>In <i>Invisible Cities</i> 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 <i>Invisible Cities</i>, perfectly irrelevant.'<br><br>This is a captivating meditation on culture, language, time, memory and the nature of human experience.<br><br><b>'<i>Invisible Cities</i> 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<br><br>'Touches inexhaustibly on the essence of the human urge to create cities, be in cities, speak of cities' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'A subtle and beautiful meditation' <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>