Invisible Cities

Synopsis

Italo calvino's beloved, intricately crafted philosophical novel about an emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. ” in a garden sit the aged kublai khan and the young marco polo—mongol emperor and venetian traveler. Kublai khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon.