Alesandro Bariko Books

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.

Il romanzo racconta la vita di Ultimo Parri, che il lettore incontra bambino in una campagna del Nord Italia all'inizio del Novecento e segue in luoghi e vicende diversi fino agli anni Sessanta. Il destino di Ultimo si svolge e si compie all'interno di una narrazione a più voci. La compongono il rumoroso arrivo delle prime automobili, la passione per i motori e per le gare, un singolare rapporto padre-figlio, atroci scorci della Grande Guerra, una storia d'amore che non inizia e non finisce e si alimenta di segni e di tracce. Il romanzo, che utilizza registri stilistici diversi, è percorso da un senso di sospensione, stupefazione e sgomento. Pubblicato con 4 copertine diverse, di Gianluigi Toccafondo

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.