Silk
1996 • 110 pages

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Despite the fact that I personally do not like the author's “voice”very much, it's a great book.

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Beautiful.

December 1, 2019
Gio
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So far I have not enjoyed Baricco's books that much. Silk is one of the few that I actually liked. I don't think that the quality is even and there are significant drops in style here and there, but the story is cute and the tone is not pretentious.

November 20, 2019

Simply told and powerful. eh la.

May 24, 2016

L'histoire d'une vie, en douceur, d'un sentiment précieux, mystérieux mais touchant. Une prose magnifique, un joyau de littérature, concis et léger mais précieux telle la soie.

“C'est une souffrance étrange. Doucement. Mourir de nostalgie pour quelque chose que tu ne vivras jamais.”

July 30, 2014
December 20, 2009
August 1, 2009

Beautiful, if somewhat mysterious,
short tale of man who travels to
edge of the known world, Japan,
to procure silkworms, and who
mysteriously falls in love.

January 1, 2003