“I read Chapter 1 of this book. And then I had to backtrack. I decided to read all bookends of every chapter instead. These contain imaginary conversations between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. This book is very well written. The several variations on the theme of the city are perfect exercises for a powerful writer. It should have been marketed as poetry and not fiction, as each snippet can be considered a prose poem. I decided to forgo reading the rest of it. There's no doubt that Italo...”

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