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Silk

Alessandro Baricco

Paperback | Pages: 91 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 33881 Users | 2635 Reviews

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Original Title:	Seta
ISBN:	0375703829 (ISBN13: 9780375703829)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hervé Joncour
Literary Awards:	Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (1998)

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When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu and travels across Siberia to the other end of the world, to Japan, to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. It is the 1860s; Japan is closed to foreigners and this has to be a clandestine operation. During his undercover negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine, a girl who does not have Oriental eyes. Although the young Frenchman and the girl are unable to exchange so much as a word, love blossoms between them, conveyed by a number of recondite messages in the course of four visits the Frenchman pays to Japan. How their secret affair develops and how it unfolds is told in a narration as beautiful, smooth and seamless as a piece of the finest silk.

List Containing Books Silk

Title	:	Silk
Author	:	Alessandro Baricco
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 91 pages
Published	:	August 25th 1998 by Vintage Books USA (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Japan

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Ratings: 3.84 From 33881 Users | 2635 Reviews

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This read was a nice break after reading long books. Silk reads like a gauzy flowing breeze. An almost fairy tale with the exotic as background and with travel and some suspense as some of its most palpable elements, it is a not an easy book to put down, precisely because it is so easy to read. The next short chapter with big print draws you immediately in until you suddenly reach the end. As a tale it also has an element of the oral tradition, with periodic repetitions to help its audience

A great example of how much can be achieved in a spare novella. This is only about 100 pages, with not all that many words on each page, yet Baricco covers 35 years and a whole range of experiences and emotional states. The main action is set between 1861 and 1874, as French merchant Hervé Joncour makes four journeys to and from Japan to acquire silkworms. This place, Japan, where precisely is it? he asked before his first trip. Just keep going. Right to the end of the world, Baldabiou, the silk

Just now finished reading it and I wanted to write a terrific review for the work.But then I now realise that I lack words to describe my sentiments regarding the novel. Is it a love story? Is it a story on a desire that is unfulfilled? Is it a story on obsession? Is it a story on silk? The novel might answer positively to everything and still something would be lacking in it.At times, you look at a person and immediately you fall in love with that person or in a moment you begin to like a

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say. Wonderful story, exquisitely created atmosphere, amazing writing style. I'll watch the movie, too, some time.

I found myself totally captivated by this odd yet hauntingly beautiful story of love. This short little book fills its pages with so much mystery, suspense and love that I found myself wanting to read it again and again, gaining more from it with each reading, yet never quite knowing it completely, never quite finding answers to my many questions, but able to accept that. I loved the author's use of repetition as emphasis as well as his sparse style of writing with prose that smoothly moves the

"The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.There Joncour 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 own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed." And a

A novella translated from Italian in abrupt sentences, with a degree of repetition that makes it a little like a poetic fairy tale. Charming and beautiful, but in a very obvious way.