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Original Title:	Seta
ISBN:	0375703829 (ISBN13: 9780375703829)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hervé Joncour
Literary Awards:	Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (1998)

Silk

Alessandro Baricco

Paperback | Pages: 91 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 33881 Users | 2635 Reviews

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Title	:	Silk
Author	:	Alessandro Baricco
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 91 pages
Published	:	August 25th 1998 by Vintage Books USA (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Japan

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When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu and travels across Siberia to the other end of the world, to Japan, to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. It is the 1860s; Japan is closed to foreigners and this has to be a clandestine operation. During his undercover negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine, a girl who does not have Oriental eyes. Although the young Frenchman and the girl are unable to exchange so much as a word, love blossoms between them, conveyed by a number of recondite messages in the course of four visits the Frenchman pays to Japan. How their secret affair develops and how it unfolds is told in a narration as beautiful, smooth and seamless as a piece of the finest silk.

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Ratings: 3.84 From 33881 Users | 2635 Reviews

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I had heard so much praise about this little book: after spending a snowy morning in reading it, I have to confess I feel underwhelmed.The beauty of the language is undeniable. It was originally written in Italian: I read a French translation, and the delicate rhythm of the sentences is quite lovely. The use of repetition obviously tries to make the narrative poetic and dream-like, and it succeeds... up to a point.To be honest, I found it a wee bit cliché: in 1860, a French silk worm merchant

"I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you will never live."I finished this in a matter of hours. My advice on this book would be: do not let that, nor its slim size, nor the whispering, simple voice that it adopts, fool you into thinking that it is insubstantial in any way. The end got to me even after my short acquaintance with the book. At times, it may feel as if you don't understand the significance of each passing

The 100 pages story of M. Joncour, a married silkworm merchant who corresponds with a Japanese concubine.There is a passage at the end of the book when M. Joncour is read the last letter from the lady... What an sensual blast... These pages are blazing-hot, and I mean it. The final twist is to be regarded as a thing of beauty. Matching soundtrack : Predator - Front Line Assembly---------------------------L'histoire de M. Joncour, éleveur de vers à soie français et de sa relation longue distance

A tale, but not a tale. A novel, but not a novel. A sad story, but not a sad story. A love story, but not a love story. Silk is everything summed up in a few lines. A masterpiece.

The minute strands of silk weave themselves amongst our lives, betwixt day and night.We ache and breathe endlessly, yearning for that love, that love, that tempest of emotions that we cannot fathom nor control within ourselves.Those words that are etched on paper are not always what they seem from whom they seem.That same heart that grasped what he thought he felt, has been mistaken; an unspoken misery has befell this man with the demise of what he really wanted.All She wanted was to be loved.

This book has a completely unrealistic plot which is good. There was nothing realistic about Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Beowulf or most other works of literature. In school, it was explained that the successful reader had to be able to suspend his or her disbelief.The problem is that Silk has to be coherent account according to the rules of its own alternate world which it is not. Many people fall in love with an inaccessible person. The writer always has to explain how the deluded lover

A great historical novel focused on the production of silk in France around the time of the American Civil War. Its a novella written in a lyrical style almost like a fable or even a fairy tale. You can read its 90 pages 65 chapters - in a sitting. The local silkworms catch a disease, so a young merchant is paid by the townsmen to leave his loving wife to go purchase larvae eggs from Japan. He travels across Europe and Siberia by train and horse and then by ship to Japan. Japan is still closed