Silk by Alessandro Baricco
A tale of lust and possession in nineteenth-century France and Japan, from the international bestseller
Mesmerising and starkly beautiful * * Observer * *
A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable. . A stylistic tour de force, a literary gem of bewitching power * * Sunday Times * *
Deeply moving . . . A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire * * Guardian * *
An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires . . . One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read * * Daily Telegraph * *
Haunting and delicately erotic * * Mail on Sunday * *
A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable. . A stylistic tour de force, a literary gem of bewitching power * * Sunday Times * *
Deeply moving . . . A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire * * Guardian * *
An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires . . . One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read * * Daily Telegraph * *
Haunting and delicately erotic * * Mail on Sunday * *
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.
Ann Goldstein is a frequent translator from the Italian. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco, Erri De Luca and Roberto Calasso.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786896421 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786896427 |
| Title | Silk |
| Author | Alessandro Baricco |
| Series | Canons |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2019-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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