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Visible Cities : Lockdown To Liberation Stress To Sustainability Aotearoa Fiction Inspired By Italo Calvino
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Visible Cities : Lockdown To Liberation Stress To Sustainability Aotearoa Fiction Inspired By Italo Calvino
Paperback Edition: 1
The celebrated Italian writer Italo Calvinos novel Invisible Cities explored the intersection of reality and imagination over 11 wondrous chapters. A hundred years after his birth 11 emerging writers from Aotearoa have each taken a city from their own country and written a short story that pays tribute to Calvino and addresses the bigger themes that shape their city in the twenty-first century.
Marco Sonzogni is a reader in translation studies and intercultural communication at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. A widely published scholar, he is also an award-winning translator, poet, editor and cultural activist.
Sydney Shep is a reader in book history and the printer at Wai-te-ata Press, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. A widely published scholar, she is also a practising letterpress printer, exhibiting book artist and designer bookbinder.
Pages : 158
Publisher : The Cuba Press
Publication date : 2023-09-29
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, NZ Fiction