Alessandro Baricco

• Jan-1920
• / General Fiction
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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 a...

• Feb-1999
• / General Fiction
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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 Ocea...

• Jun-2002
• / General Fiction
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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 intell...

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war �" and one girl's quest for revenge and healing, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Silk.When �" in an unnamed place and time �" Manuel Roca's enemies hunt him down to kill h...

• Aug-2006
• / Historical
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Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homeric detachment and admits us to rea...

• May-2012
• / Literary
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The secular and the pious. The rich and the poor. Those with "a capacity for destiny" and those who "cannot afford it." Emmaus is a world of stark contrasts, one in which four young men -- all from proud, struggling families, and all lusting after An...

• Oct-2013
• / General Fiction
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"""The crazy life and courageous death of a man who loved women too much to want only one.""

Don Juan is a passionate lover of life and nearly 1,000 women. One night, the Commendatore of Calatrava catches him kissing his daughter, and challeng...

• Jul-2014
• / Literary
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After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a �"copyist,” holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at th...

• Jul-2014
• / Literary
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After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end,...

• Aug-2016
• / General Fiction
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"A young woman enters a fantastically strange family in this luminous and alarming lesson on desire"" by the international-bestselling author ( La Stampa, Italy ).A young woman is promised to the scion of a noble family. While her betrothed is away t...