The Invisible Cities is a book everyone should read.

"No matter how fantastical those places are in Invisible Cities, he reveals that they’re all Venice. They’re all basically Marco Polo riffing about Venice. It’s his childhood home. Calvino touches on the idea of nostalgia, and I think in the ancient Greek sense of nostalgia—in trying to get home, you go off and you have these adventures"

https://lithub.com/darran-anderson-on-the-ever-shifting-magic-of-italo-calvinos-invisible-cities/