Silk
Baricco, Alessandro, 1958-2006
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The French silk trade is threatened by an epidemic and Hervé Joncour travels to 1860s Japan to attempt to obtain clean eggs. He falls in love with a non-Japanese concubine but the affair is carried out secretively and provides a most delicate ending.
Main title:
Silk / Alessandro Baricco ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2006.
Collation:
148 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Harvill, 1997.
ISBN:
9781841958354 (pbk)
Dewey class:
853.914
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
959242
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