"It's best, I think, to read Invisible Cities like a traveler–slowly, luxuriously, as if you have all the time in the world." - NPR
"Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant." - Gore Vidal, The New York Review of Books
"Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose . . . The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island." - Jeanette Winterson
"Italy's most original storyteller...Invisible Cities is an elegy, autumnal and melancholy." - New York Times
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