He only learns about the far-flung cities in and beyond his Empire through the stories of travelers, and the well-traveled and poetically tongued Marco Polo is the greatest explorer and storyteller of them all. The Empire has grown so large that the Great Khan feels like he doesn’t even know his own lands. In the future, it will be eclipsed only by the British Empire in terms of the land area under its control. By this time, the Mongol Empire has grown to be the largest that the world has ever seen. The Venetian explorer, Marco Polo, captivates the Tartar Emperor with descriptions of the cities from his unprecedented travels. This uniquely constructed novel is set in the late thirteenth century in the court of Kublai Khan. Invisible Cities is a tour de force from Italo Calvino, the late Italian master of speculative fiction.
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