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      Silk

      by Alessandro Baricco
      Published
      Jan 1920
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      70
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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 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.

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      Historical

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      Jan 1920 HarperCollins ISBN13 9781860463105 ISBN10 186046310X
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