Seide by Alessandro Baricco
A spare, lyrical novella follows Hervé Joncour, a silk merchant in 19th-century France who makes perilous voyages to Japan to buy silkworm eggs during a blight; while abroad he becomes quietly obsessed with a mysterious concubine whose image haunts him, and the long absences, coded letters, and unspoken passions strain his steady, speechless marriage to his wife Hélène, leaving the reader with an elegiac meditation on desire, distance, and the ineffable gaps between people.
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- Published
- 1996
- Nationality
- Italian
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 80-120 pages
- Original Language
- Italian
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- Alternate Titles
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- Seda
- Seide
- Seta
- Silk
- Soie
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