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Title: Silk by Alessandro Baricco ISBN: 0-375-70382-9 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (59 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My vote
Comment: Other reviewers have said it much better than I. I only want to cast my vote and tell anyone considering the book to buy it now. It is beautiful and heartbreaking.
Rating: 5
Summary: Breathtaking
Comment: I was simply overwhelmed after having read this book, which was a very pleasant and challenging introduction into Alessandro Baricco's world.
This is more than a book, it is a soft touch which tells you the beautiful story of nostalgia for a love that can never be lived.
It will not take you more than one hour to read it, but it will be one hour full of peace, in which you will discover the mistery of a life, of a country, of sensual love, of an illusion.
Baricco is very poetical and his simple and delicate manner of story telling, which flows like a river, is what makes the book great. The beauty comes also from the understated sensuality and passion that derives from the plot, as well as from the "silence" that this book gives off. You can feel there is no need for too many words - too much has already been told.
The whole story is written with a soft pen, as if instead of ink, the writer used silk. This is perfect to create the a subtle and exotic atmosphere. In only 100 pages one can find out about Herve Joncourt and his life, his wife, his business partners, his travels to Japan, the imposibility to fight and win his love and touch his dream.
I don't want to say too much about Silk, as I would like you to convince yourselves that it is just breathtaking.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: I am not sure why i liked it, but i did. I read it in an 11 hour strecth in an airplane. It is an excellent book of an old story told in a new way.
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Title: Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco, Alistair McEwen ISBN: 0375703950 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: City by Alessandro Baricco ISBN: 0375725482 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Art of Light and Space by Jan Butterfield, Jim McHugh ISBN: 0789201712 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting by Barbara Maria Stafford ISBN: 0262692678 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Merchant of Marvels and the Peddler of Dreams by Frederic Clement, Emma Cole ISBN: 0811816648 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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