{"product_id":"invisible-cities-9780156453806","title":"Invisible Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItalo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels--a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalvino, Italo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - ITALO CALVINO (1923-1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are \u003ci\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIf on a winter\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003es night a traveler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baron in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His works have been translated into dozens of languages.","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50580690108690,"sku":"9780156453806","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bae5473-df0f-4d86-838e-13ab8edd64d6.jpg?v=1732011235","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/invisible-cities-9780156453806","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}