Alessandro Baricco is a celebrated Italian author whose works are renowned for their distinctive style and profound exploration of the human experience. His prose often transcends genre boundaries, blending poetry with narrative to craft unique literary worlds. Baricco delves into themes of identity, memory, and the search for meaning in the modern world within his novels, with his writing praised for its inventiveness and emotional resonance. His artistic scope also extends to theater and direction, further enriching his expressive capabilities.
A dramatic monologue published in English for the first time. Adapted for film in The Legend of 1900, this stage adaptation is a beautiful piece of theatre. This is the story of Novecento, an abandoned baby found onboard the cruise liner Virginia. Novecento never leaves the ship but creates a life for himself at sea.
A haunting tale of love and vengeance, from the internationally bestselling author of Silk
After declaring he will no longer write novels, Mr. Gwyn creates profound character portraits for clients until he disappears leaving behind only the portraits and a short note to his assistant.
This startling, sensual, hypnotically compelling novel tells a story of adventure, sexual enthrallment, and a love so powerful that it unhinges a man's life. In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour is compelled to travel to Japan, where, in the court of an enigmatic nobleman, he meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed. The same spell will envelop anyone who reads Silk, a work that has the compression of a fable, the evocative detail of the greatest historical fiction, and the devastating erotic force of a dream.
"Fourteen years after the publication of his cult classic I Barbari, Baricco returns in The Game to the topic of change, in a journey that maps out the transformations that the digital revolution has wrought upon the landscape of human experience. From Space Invaders to the PlayStation, from Windows 95 to the conundrum of artificial intelligence, Baricco traces the trajectory of a revolution in the way we think, feel, and communicate - and seeks to discover what it might actually mean for our future."--Amazon
The crazy life and courageous death of a man who loved women too much to want only one. Don Juan is a passionate lover of life and nearly 1,000 women. But one day he kills the Commendatore of Calatrava in a duel, and so begins the end for the incorrigible seducer.
'Contained in theses few page is a complete portrait of what it means to be human, at our most elemental, and the effect is awesome.' The Observer
From international bestselling author, Alessandro Baricco, comes a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman's ingress into a fantastically strange family. The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of a noble family. She is to make her preparations for marriage at the family's villa, where the inhabitants never seem to sleep. The atmosphere turns surreal as the days pass and her presence on the family estate begins to make itself felt on her future in-laws. In this erotically charged and magical novel, Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the rules of causation as he tells a story, an adult fable, about fate and the difficult job of confronting the Other and creating an Us.
Four teenage boys become obsessed with the beautiful, mysterious and promiscuous Andre, who, after trying to commit suicide, forces these devout Catholic boys to question everything they know about devotion, desire and sin. Original.
The sequel to 'Wolf Hall', 'Bring up the Bodies' explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.
