Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities [1997] paperback Condition:Good In its first ever quiz

In its first ever quiz book in a 175-year history

Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents

author of Black Wood

From the birth of the CND and his affair with Lessing

Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities [1997] paperback Condition:Good In its first ever quizIn 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.'