The first city in Invisible Cities feels like a fall evening. Beautiful, yet at the same moment heavy with nostalgia, carrying the quiet pang of hope and sadness.
Invisible Cities 1978 · by Italo Calvino
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.