“Invisible Cities was a different kind of novel. Instead of telling a story, the author tells many descriptions of imaginary cities. He presents it as Marco Polo describing cities from his travel's to Kublai Khan. Each city has the feel of a dream city with fantastical and/or philosophical elements. The reader is left wondering weather each city exists, if Marco Polo is making them all up, or if they are simply different ways of describing the same city or all cities. The writing is beautiful and often poetic. The images invoked are fantastic. Unfortunately, after the first few cities were described I started to find my attention wandering. I could appreciate the beauty of the writing, but it did not really hold my attention.”
Cora R wrote this review Wednesday, April 15 2009.
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