Invisible Cities
Publisher: Mandarin
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780749397647
Subjects: Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: Leaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower.
Description: Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited. But Calvino is describing only one city - Venice. Invisible Cities has been described as Calvino's most beautiful work.