| Silk (Movie Tie-In Edition) Contributor(s): Baricco, Alessandro (Author), Goldstein, Ann (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0307277976 ISBN-13: 9780307277978 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: Set in 1861, this startling, sensual, hypnotically compelling novel tells a story of adventure, sexual enthrallment, and a love so powerful that it unhinges a mans life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007021080 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.54" W x 8.04" (0.36 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Japanese - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The year is 1861. Herv 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. |