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Title: Silk by Alessandro Baricco, Guido Waldman ISBN: 1-86046-310-X Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: January, 1920 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (59 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read it and weep....
Comment: Silk is a romantic fable of sensuality and passion blended with bittersweet irony. Herve Joncour's travels in quest of silk worms takes him around the world, but the beauty of the story has nothing to do with either silk worms or travel. The beauty comes from the intense desire and passion the author has captured in such concise form. The reader is immediately aware, not only from the slim slip of a book that it is, but from the scarcity of words that comprise each chapter, that this story will be told neatly, breathlessly, like poetry breezing off each page. One only truly understands the layers of emotion the author has created to bind the relationships of the three main characters at the end, and then at that, with only a few deft words, the poignant irony of the story stabs at the heart like the piercing sting of an arrow. That Alessandro Barrico could express such depth of feeling in prose so sparse, begs one to compare his style to that of the elegant lightness of silk itself. It is simply breathtaking, and well worth tears shed at the end.
Rating: 4
Summary: light flowing poetry in motion
Comment: As most other readers seemed to have done, I read this book in about one hour, and it was a pure delight. A tale well told, and the rhythm of the text is indeed like poetry. Or a piece of music with a repeated cadence like a train on rails, indicating at the same time the broad rhythm of ongoing life and the uniqueness of events. I loved the dry and sparse style, e.g. of the recurrent travel description going from France to Japan or vice-versa in one paragraph, the unexpectedly broken or repeated sentences. The story is like a watercolor with some stark ink strokes (very Japanese and Zen, of course) which makes the driving force of human love and will come out all the more powerfully. A short, romantic and elegant tale of love and commitment, light sensuality (what fabric is more sensual that silk?) and an eroticism slowly throbbing under the tale like lava. Pleasure to read, and it makes a very good gift, too.
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.
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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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