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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 Hervé 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 reads Silk, 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.
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"A heart-breaking love story." --The Sunday Times (London)
"A riveting, lyrical love story, an accomplished historical fiction, a compact, condensed little epic about human hearts in crisis." --Allan Cheuse, All Things Considered (NPR)
"A book with language to savor. . . . [It] seems as guileless as a folk tale but propels a reader with real force." --Denver Post
"Silk has the brilliant colors, the compressed life and the enchantment of a miniature. . . . Vividly erotic." --Newsday
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"A riveting, lyrical love story, an accomplished historical fiction, a compact, condensed little epic about human hearts in crisis." --Allan Cheuse, All Things Considered (NPR)
"A book with language to savor. . . . [It] seems as guileless as a folk tale but propels a reader with real force." --Denver Post
"Silk has the brilliant colors, the compressed life and the enchantment of a miniature. . . . Vividly erotic." --Newsday
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of two previous novels, Castelli di rabbia, which won the Prix Médicis in France and the Selezione Campiello prize in Italy, and Ocean-Sea, which won the Viareggio and Palazzo del Bosco prizes. He has also written essays in the field of musicology. Silk became an immediate bestseller in Italy and has been translated into twenty-seven languages.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0375703829
- ISBN 13 9780375703829
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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