Invisible Cities Author:Calvino, Italo Translated by William Weaver — "Calvino's seventh and latest novel (or work or meditation or poem) Invisible Cities, is perhaps his most beautiful work. In a garden sit the aged Kublai and the young Marco Polo ... The mood is sunset. ...Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention ... more »like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant." from a review by Gore Vidal of Invisible Cities in the New York Times.« less