Author: Italo Calvino
Book title: Le città invisibili (Invisible Cities)
No. of braille volumes: 2
No. of pages in braille issue: 246
Publisher of the book in black print: Plato
Place and year of publishing: Belgrade, 2020
No. of pages in black print: 133
About the book:
Cities, just like dreams, are made of desires and fears, although the thread of their speech is hidden, their rules are absurd, perspective is deceptive, and each thing hides another.
In the garden sit the aging Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo – the Mongolian emperor and the Venetian traveller. Kublai Khan sensed that the end of his empire would soon come. Marco Polo captures the attention of his host with stories about the cities he saw on his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desires, cities and signs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo develops his stories, the emperor discovers that these fantastic places are more than they seem.