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020 _a9780099429838
082 _a853.914 CAL
100 _aCalvino, Italo
245 _aInvisible Cities
260 _b Penguin Random House
_c2023
_aUK
300 _a148
520 _aIn Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant
650 _aGeneral Fiction
650 _aFiction and Literature
650 _a Fantasy
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