Myself and Marco Polo: A Novel of Changes

By Paul Griffiths

Book Overview

Returned from twenty years of travelling in China, Marco Polo now languishes in a Genoan prison cell. But his fellow inmate, Rustichello of Pisa, turns out to be an author of popular romances and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394582969
• ISBN13: 9780394582962
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A prizewinning debut novel by a well known music writer

It is no wonder that this witty, Borges-ian first novel won a prestigious Australian book prize. Griffiths' clear and approachable style is superbly suited to such a thought provoking work, but he never seems to talk down to the reader as he discusses weighty subject matter in a lighthearted manner. I really enjoyed reading this; I preferred it to his second novel, The Lay of Sir Tristan, which was less open in spirit, but I would certainly buy any other works by the same author, and his column in the New York Times always has an interesting perspective on the classical music scene.