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Novel · 1972

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy

Novel · 1972 · Italian · Contemporary

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Marco Polo describes fifty-five cities to Kublai Khan; each is Venice.

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A book with the architecture of a poem: the frame dialogues are the argument, the cities are the evidence.

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