description: Italo Calvino has emerged in the past few decades as a great storyteller, taking simple conceits and spinning them into fantastic tales. 'Invisible Cities' is like a series of luminous paintings that narrate an unknown mythology.
language: Italian
title: Le città invisibili
titlecomplete: Le città invisibili
characters: Marco Polo, Kublai Khan
genres: Classics, Magical Realism, Italian Literature, Architecture, Fantasy, Italy, Short Stories, Novels, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 79932
places: Mongol Empire
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Translation
publisher: Multilingual Books and Tapes