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From the author of the international bestseller Silk ("Vividly erotic"--Los Angeles Times; "A heartbreaking love story . . . a literary gem of bewitching power"--The Sunday Times [London]), comes a haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance. A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress. And a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate fathers last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. Adams may furnish the key to the girls salvation, but only the fulfillment of his obsessive secret purpose--to answer murder with murder--can conclude the journey that has brought him from the ends of the earth. At once playful and profoundly serious, Alessandro Baricco's new novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.

"OCEAN SEA is like a beautiful but fey woman: many readers will be enchanted; but equally, I suspect, many will prove staunchly immune to its siren charms....The novel is dreamlike; yet the dreams of others do not attract all readers....And yet I found myself thoroughly beguiled--seduced by the power and originality of the writing."

Caroline Moore, Literary Review, September 1999

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