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Ocean Sea

By Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwen (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780375703959

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"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--"The New York Times Book Review
With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to ItaContinue

"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--"The New York Times Book Review
With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature.
In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom. [예스24 제공]

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  • Ocean Sea

    Alessandro Baricco's second novel brings us to a lodging house on an unknown shore, 'a place that almost does not exist', where an odd group of travellers, each of them obsessed with the sea, is playing out the final part of a puzzling, magical, thor ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco - Review by Waterstone's Books Quarterly Online

    Written in potent, lyrical prose, Ocean Sea brings together a group of disparate characters in a seaside inn, all hoping to find some solace from the ocean. Each character’s story, whether it be of love, betrayal, murder or redemption, becomes entang ... (read full critics)

    wbqonline published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • written in Italian; read translation. I like the wandering, internalization of the drama in Italian novels...wonderfully atmospheric for me and I hope, an insight into 'thinking like an Italian'...

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