Chapter one. London : Inventing a City --
Chapter two. Paris : Writers' Paradise --
Chapter three. Krakow : After Auschwitz --
Chapter four. Venice-Florence : Invisible cities --
Chapter five. Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat : Stories within stories --
Chapter six. The Congo-Nigeria : (Post)Colonial encounters --
Chapter seven. Israel/Palestine : Strangers in a strange land --
Chapter eight. Tehran-Shiraz : A desertful of roses --
Chapter nine. Calcutta/Kolkata : Rewriting empire --
Chapter ten. Shanghai-Beijing : Journeys to the west --
Chapter eleven. Tokyo-Kyoto : The west of the east --
Chapter tweleve. Brazil-Columbia : Utopias, dystopias, heterotopias --
Chapter thirteen. Mexico-Guatemala : The Pope's blowgun --
Chapter fourteen. The Antilles and beyond : Fragments of epic memory --
Chapter fifteen. Bar Harbor : the world on a desert island --
Chapter sixteen. New York : Migrant metropolis.