Silk

Zusatztext Haunting and delicately erotic Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of thirteen novels, as well as a number of essay and short story collections, a modern rendition of The Iliad and a theatrical monologue. He has won the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Selezione Campiello, Viareggio and Palazzo al Bosco prizes in Italy. Klappentext In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they don't even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But the moment he does, Joncour is enslaved. Subtle, tender and surprising, Silk is an evocative tale of erotic possession. A tale of lust and possession in nineteenth-century France and Japan, from the international bestseller Zusammenfassung A tale of lust and possession in nineteenth-century France and Japan, from the international bestseller

About the author

Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of thirteen novels, as well as a number of essay and short story collections, a modern rendition of The Iliad and a theatrical monologue. He has won the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Selezione Campiello, Viareggio and Palazzo al Bosco prizes in Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Baricco, Baricco Alessandro
• Assisted by: Ann Goldstein (Translation)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781786896421
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-642-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: The Canons; The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary