Silk by Alessandro Baricco

Silk

Alessandro Baricco with Ann Goldstein (Translator)

160 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction historical romance emotional reflective fast-paced
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In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they don't even speak. And he cannot read the note s...

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