toniapeckover 's review for:

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

4.0

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This is not the kind of book you complete, it's the kind of book you surrender to. Imagine an imaginary conversation between Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo in which Polo describes all the cities he has seen and visited - or hasn't visited, maybe just imagined - and all the ways his imagination imagines those cities (or not-cities) and then imagine he's talking about the cities we create in our minds or maybe the way we bring ourselves to the actual cities we visit and make them into cities of our imaginations...Now you have an idea of what this book is like. It's hypnotic and lyrical and creative and puzzling and one that keeps traveling around the corners of my mind.