"At the turn of the 20th Century, the great cruise liner Virginia shuttles back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, transporting passengers from old Europe to the New World. When an abandoned baby is found on board the sailors christen Novecento - 1900. The child is destined to a strange fate. No[...]

A bold re-imagining of our civilization's greatest tale of war, from the acclaimed and bestselling author of "Silk."
In "An Iliad," Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters, in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. From the retu[...]

"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review

With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor [...]

When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine[...]

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself.[...]

After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose. The[...]

Schon mit seinen ersten Romanen hatte der 1958 geborene Alessandro Baricco große Erfolge, mit "Seta" (dt. "Seide") wurde er weltberühmt. Die Geschichte von der Leidenschaft des Seidenhändlers Herv? Joncour zu einer rätselhaften Schönheit in Japan erzählt Baricco in einer schwebende[...]

Den driftige franske handelsmand Hervé Joncour rejser i midten af 1800-tallet til Japan for at købe silkelarver. Hans oplevelser af japansk kultur og kærlighed kommer til at præge resten af hans liv. Lettlest "Easy Reader"-utgave.[...]