Invisible Cities is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino, published in 1972. The book is a collection of short stories, each describing a different city, as narrated by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan.While the book ostensibly focuses on Polo’s descriptions of these cities, it is really a meditation on human civilization and its possibilities. The book is divided into five sections, each of which contains a number of chapters describing different cities. The first section, for example, contains chapters on cities that are beautiful, such as Venice, while the second section contains chapters on cities that are strange, such as Ebla. Ultimately, the book is about the relationship between people and their cities, and the ways in which cities can shape people’s lives. It is a book that is both sad and hopeful, a book that encourages its readers to think about the world around them in new and different ways.
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