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Silk

By Alessandro Baricco

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| eBook | 9781847678492

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Book Description

France, 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour (a young silkworm breeder) has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attContinue

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'Silk' by Alessandro Baricco

This powerful and erotic tale reveals how one's man desire threatens to ruin his life. It is 1861 and Hervé Joncour is a silk breeder from France who is happily married to the beautiful Helene. Compelled to travel illegally to Japan alone in search o ... (read full critics)

readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

5 Reviews

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An absolutely beautifully written little book. A meaningful and moving story in around 65 pages. Anyone can read this and then discover why a well written novel can be small and powerful.

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Icedream said on Nov 2, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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This one didn't do much for me. Beautiful imagery. Incomprehensible characters. Meh.

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Neighbors said on Jan 27, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Silk - Alessandro Baricco

I liked this style: clean, short, concrete. This author goes directly to the facts. He doesn't loose time in unnecesary descriptions. He goes to the point. This is a wonderful writing about a platonic love story: A guy that goes to Japan, buys some eggs, and falls inlove with a girl whose voice he n ... (continue)

I liked this style: clean, short, concrete. This author goes directly to the facts. He doesn't loose time in unnecesary descriptions. He goes to the point. This is a wonderful writing about a platonic love story: A guy that goes to Japan, buys some eggs, and falls inlove with a girl whose voice he never ever listens to. This is a story about a life, and a question about the sense of living, the sense of love, the sense of marriage. Is there any sense? That is the question you make to yourself when you read this. I liked it, it entertained me, and it relaxed me a lot.

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ariadna73 said on May 10, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I just didn't get it.

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Leahrussell76 said on Oct 6, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

An Italian friend recommended him. Could not find it in Italian so I read it first in English. Lyrical and so beautiful

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Tatiana Shafer said on Sep 23, 2008 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback