Silk - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841958352 ISBN 13: 9781841958354

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

France, 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour, a young silkworm breeder, has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to smuggle out healthy silkworms.In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine, a girl who does not have oriental eyes. Although they are unable to exchange so much as a word, love blossoms between them, a love that is conveyed in a number of recondite messages.How their secret affair develops is told in this remarkable love story.

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Críticas:

Deeply moving - A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire. * * Guardian * * A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable ... A literary gem of bewitching power. * * Sunday Times * * Silk is the perfect pick-up book ... A book of startling images and ideas. * * Observer * * An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires ... One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read. * * Daily Telegraph * *

Reseña del editor:

A magnificent gentle love story of Herve Joncour, a french merchant of silkworms in the 1860s. In the town of Lavilledieu (the town of god), silkworms are the key capital and silk making is the central economic activity.

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• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1841958352
• ISBN 13: 9781841958354
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112