This is an infuriating and exquisite fantasy which takes outrageous
liberties with maps. Marco Polo is brought before the Kublai Khan
and obliged to describe 55 of the cities he has encountered on his
journeys. There is the earth-hating town of Baucis where everything
is raised on stilts, the spiderweb city of Octavia, the woven
metropolis of Eudoxia where citizens are lost among the cloth and
threads... Of course, you'll not find any of these mesmerizing
places in an atlas unless it is an atlas of daydreams. These are
cities far too playful and beguiling to be real. (Kirkus UK)
'The most beautiful of his books throws up ideas, allusions, and breathtaking imaginative insights on almost every page. Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited-Although he makes Marco Polo summon up many cities for the Khan's imagination to feed on, Calvino is describing only one city in this book. Venice, that decaying heap of incomparable splendour, still stands as substantial evidence of man's ability to create something perfect out of chaos' Paul Bailey Times Literary Supplement
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