Silk
by BARICCO, ALESSANDROEdition: Reprint
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1998-09-01
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
This startling, sensual, hypnotically compelling novel tells a story of adventure, sexual enthrallment, and a love so powerful that it unhinges a man's life. In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour is compelled to travel to Japan, where, in the court of an enigmatic nobleman, he meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed. The same spell will envelop anyone who readsSilk, a work that has the compression of a fable, the evocative detail of the greatest historical fiction, and the devastating erotic force of a dream.
Author Biography
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of two previous novels, <b>Castelli di rabbia</b>, which won the Prix Médicis in France and the Selezione Campiello prize in Italy, and <b>Ocean-Sea</b>, which won the Viareggio and Palazzo del Bosco prizes. He has also written essays in the field of musicology. <b>Silk</b> became an immediate bestseller in Italy and has been translated into twenty-seven languages.
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