Showing posts with label Alessandro Baricco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alessandro Baricco. Show all posts

F - 371 | The Young Bride by Alessandro Baricco

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From international bestselling author, Alessandro Baricco, comes a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family.

The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of a noble family. She is to make her preparations for marriage at the family’s villa, where the inhabitants never seem to sleep. The atmosphere turns surreal as the days pass and her presence on the family estate begins to make itself felt on her future in-laws.

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F - 372 | City by Alessandro Baricco

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The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary giant and an imaginary mute. Improbably—and yet with impeccable logic--he falls into the care of Shatzy Shell, a young woman whose life up till that point has been equally devoid of human connection.

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F - 373 | Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwen

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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.

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F - 374 | Silk by Alessandro Baricco

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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.

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