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Invisible Cities

For a reader who wants fiction that feels like a cabinet of curiosities.

Oddity 1 is familiar. 5 is genuinely strange.

Calvino's slim novel of impossible cities, described by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, a few pages at a time.

Three reasons

  1. Each city is short. You can wander in and leave.
  2. Designers and writers pass this book around for a reason that is hard to explain and easy to recognize.
  3. The link is the Harcourt paperback, the small object the book wants to be.

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