Silk / Alessandro Baricco
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Vintage International , 1997Description: 91 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780375703829
- FIC BAR
- PQ4862.A6745 S47 1997
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 006065 |
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.
Translated from the Italian to English
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