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Silk

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The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.

There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot rea...more

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Published August 25th 1998 by Vintage (first published January 1st 1996)

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Aug 25, 2012 Chiara Pagliochini rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: narrativa-contemporanea

« Dicevano che era un truffatore. Dicevano che era un santo. Qualcuno diceva: ha qualcosa addosso, come una specie di infelicità. »

Ordine, prego! Silenzio in aula. Silenzio, prego (due colpi col martelletto).
La Corte di Giustizia si riunisce oggi per decretare l’assoluzione o la condanna a pena da stabilirsi per il signor Baricco Alessandro, classe 1958.
Tra i capi d’accusa imputati al signor Baricco, ricordiamo: “faciloneria”, “faccia da ruffiano”, “spocchia”, “ammiccamenti al lettore”, “egoce...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Gavin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: literary

I never imagined I would like a book where the main character makes a living by buying silkworms. But I did. In fact, I not only liked it, I loved it. SILK is easily one of the top ten books I have read in the past eighteen months or so. It has a sparse writing style, and passages are repeated almost verbatim in no less than three different spots. The characters are there, fully realized, but at the same time, each character is a mystery or a ghost without definite shape. The prose is smooth, dr...more I never imagined I would like a book where the main character makes a living by buying silkworms. But I did. In fact, I not only liked it, I loved it. SILK is easily one of the top ten books I have read in the past eighteen months or so. It has a sparse writing style, and passages are repeated almost verbatim in no less than three different spots. The characters are there, fully realized, but at the same time, each character is a mystery or a ghost without definite shape. The prose is smooth, dreamlike.

SILK is an easy story to relate to: it is about the idea of love. Herve Joncour is a silkworm buyer who, at first, travels across Europe, past the Mediterranean, into Syria and Egypt to buy the precious silkworm eggs. However, an epidemic hits the silkworms of Europe, and before long, the epidemic spreads to the far reaches of Egypt. Worried that this enterprise is in danger, a man named Baldabiou convinces Herve that to ensure a profit Herve needs to go a land that is known for only being at the end of the world: Japan. But Japan is closed to outsiders. In fact, it is closed off to anyone who leaves the island. Now, it would have been easy for the author, Alessandro Baricco, to bombard the reader with fascinating details about the politics of Japan, and the history of opening the island to outsiders. I would have really liked that. But Baricco had other ideas. He knew that if he heaped detail upon detail, during this part, the mystery and intrigue of the story would become lost. Instead, Baricco uses only the least bit of detail to convey such a tumultuous time of Japanese and world history. And it is done in such a beautiful and remarkable way that this reader never felt as if important aspects of the novel were only glazed over.

It is while in Japan that Herve has a realization of love. (I wish I could tell you about the woman and the impact she had upon Herve, but that would ruin the story for you.) Herve replays this journey four times. Three of them are peaceful. On the fourth time, Japan is in the midst of a civil war. When Herve returns this last time, charred villages and a way of life that he remembers are black phantoms upon the landscape. (Not to mention the woman that Herve loves? adores? lusts? contributes to this bleak landscape in the form of silence.)

Okay, I know the past two paragraphs have been cryptic, I apologize. I hate when other reviewers do that, but it seems secrecy is the only way I can explain how powerful this story is. You see, the love Herve thinks he feels is not really love; it’s not not really love as well. And this is the beauty of Baricco’s storytelling. At only a 112 pages, this is an easy read. But when you have finished the story, I am willing to bet it will be a long time before the images and situations leave your mind.

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Apr 03, 2013 Kalliope rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This read was a nice break after reading long books. Silk reads like a gauzy flowing breeze. An almost fairy tale with the exotic as background and with travel and some suspense as some of its most palpable elements, it is a not an easy book to put down, precisely because it is so easy to read. The next short chapter with big print draws you immediately in until you suddenly reach the end. As a tale it also has an element of the oral tradition, with periodic repetitions to help its audience reme...more
This read was a nice break after reading long books. Silk reads like a gauzy flowing breeze. An almost fairy tale with the exotic as background and with travel and some suspense as some of its most palpable elements, it is a not an easy book to put down, precisely because it is so easy to read. The next short chapter with big print draws you immediately in until you suddenly reach the end. As a tale it also has an element of the oral tradition, with periodic repetitions to help its audience remember, repetitions which have bothered some readers, but which for me made the reading faster.

It also has some historical pegs, such as 1861 and Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, or the effects of the earlier Treaty that Commodore Perry forced on Japan to open up its borders to Western Trade, or the geopolitical setting of an Asia as the theatre for the colonial wars between the various European powers, when the UK was selling arms to the Japanese government, while the Netherlands supported the rebels as the Japanese civil war erupted. We are also reminded of the opening of the Suez Canal, and more pertinent to the tale, the scientific discoveries of Pasteur related to parasites and silkworms. This was the age when a new explosion of trade changed the nature of the already long established Silk-Route.

But the historical content is just pegs. A different context could have also served for these historical components seem no more than a setting made of cardboard planks. The narration is not factual, but essentially evocative. The language comes across in a poetic mode in the Spanish translation from the original Italian. Many sentences are left open and others are placed here or there, as if they were loose brushstrokes painted with Japanese ink.

Seda or Silk, then comes across as a lyrical legend in which the underlying feeling or theme would seem to be Love. But to me it expressed the more general sentiment of Longing, the longing that is experienced in love, but also in other imaginary trips and landscapes and desires and yearnings.

Because Longing is as slippery and shiny and as smooth as silk.

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Dec 29, 2008 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, poetry, always-on-my-mind, owned, worlds-lost-dead-and-dying, 20th-century-postwar-to-late, grand-opera

"I never even heard her voice."
And after a while:
"It is a strange grief."
Softly:
"To die of nostalgia for something you will never live."

I finished this in a matter of hours. My advice on this book would be: do not let that, nor its slim size, nor the whispering, simple voice that it adopts, fool you into thinking that it is insubstantial in any way. The end got to me even after my short acquaintance with the book. At times, it may feel as if you don't understand the significance of each passing...more

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Apr 19, 2008 Francisco rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: novela, italianos

Novela muy, muy breve, aquilatada al máximo, de gran profundidad, con muchos hilos abiertos... estupenda y con un gran recorrido. Más que leerla, la he bebido.
¡Qué triste es descubrir el amor después de haberlo perdido!

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Sep 03, 2008 Raül De Tena rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008

Si hay algo que hay que destacar en Seda es la excelente economía de medios que Alessandro Baricco pone al servicio de una historia de juguete, frágil y bella como una figurilla de cristal. Es la historia de Hervé Joncour y su amor idealizado hacia alguien que no es nadie, sino más bien una idea del amor ideal, distante, sensual e inconcluso. Y, por lo tanto, un engaño que le aleja de la realidad y hace sufrir a quien tiene cerca, a quien le ama.

Seda no es más que un cuento, de tal forma que hay...more

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Aug 07, 2011 Simona Bartolotta rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

E' uno strano dolore, morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.

Prima di questo ho letto "Oceano mare", libro che, devo ammettere, non ho apprezzato più tanto.
E inizio a pensare che il problema sia mio.
Dopo Seta, continuo imperterrita a non capire Baricco.
Lettura piacevole, per carità, ma non ti lascia nulla. Dicono che nei libri di Baricco non si deve prestare attenzione alla storia, ma a ciò che la storia vuole comunicare. Come la mettiamo se la storia non comunica niente?
Ti sciv...more

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Mar 22, 2011 Alberto Schiariti rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

E' proprio "boh" la parola più adatta alla sensazione che mi ha lasciato questo libro. Leggere un libro di Baricco è un po' come giocare al Lotto. Io ho amato Novecento, ma comincio a sospettare che sia colpa della trasposizione cinematografica che ho visto prima di leggere il libro. Caso raro, ma il sospetto si insidia.

Seta è un libro in bilico tra la cagata e la poesia. Strana oscillazione, ma c'è da una parte una trama veramente molto povera e lineare, una quantità di pagine infima e una desc...more

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Jan 12, 2010 K.D. Oliveros rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Nenette; Rhys

Recommended to K.D. by: 1001 Must Read Books; Tata J

Shelves: 1001-core

What I liked most about this book is its story telling approach: direct, brief, concise without sacrificing the plot. It is as if you are reading a tragic love story that is told almost like a telegram. Okay, it is a bit exaggerated considering that this was originally written in Italian and published in 1958 but was translated into English in 1997. Which means that they could be somehow something that got lost in translation. I know a little of Italian, having finished my Basic Italian course l...more

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Dec 24, 2011 Stefania T. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Non è il miglior Baricco. Ma è pur sempre lui. Ed io, stanca di far la ribelle, confesso di essermene definitivamente...Innamorata.

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Jun 20, 2008 Núria rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: prestados, 2008, literatura-italiana, 3-buenos, siglo-xx

Creo que, como tantas otras veces, el problema ha sido que me habían hablado demasiado bien del libro. Me ha gustado. Sin duda me ha gustado. Pero esperaba más. Es un libro que se devora y es de lo más bonito. Es un cuento escrito con un estilo delicado lleno de repeticiones y paralelismos musicales. Es una historia intensa que toca muchos temas y en la que importa más lo que no se dice que no lo que se dice. Pero, aunque me ha gustado, nunca he acabado de entrar en él. Creo que el principal pro...more

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Apr 17, 2012 York rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Qué hermoso libro!

Lo había prestado hace algún tiempo y me lo regresaron ayer en la mañana, hoy acabo de terminar de leerlo por cuarta vez y no deja de sorprenderme el milagro de narrativa que consiguió Baricco con esta obra.

Lleno de poesía y sutileza en una historia que resulta totalmente etérea, que obliga al lector construir más allá de la página. Lo que encontramos entre cada hoja es apenas un velo (de seda) tejido por muchos pequeños hilos que nos ayudan a construir un mundo y un dolor que...more

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Feb 12, 2008 Angel Valenzuela rated it 5 of 5 stars

Este libro es poesia. El lenguaje es conciso, pero de una dulzura que pocas veces me ha atrapado en un libro. Alessandro Baricco maneja un estilo impecable, que prescinde de todo lo innecesario, entregando una lectura breve, pero sustanciosa. Maestro de una brevedad poética.

This book is sheer poetry. The language is concise, but gentle as few books I've ever read. Alessandro Baricco's style is impeccable, it lacks everything unnecessary, and delivers a brief but substantial reading. Baricco mast...more

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Sep 26, 2011 Samuel Ch. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Samuel by: Turris

Shelves: biblioteca

Una historia elegante, delicada, sutil; como la seda misma. El texto encanta por la sobriedad de la narración, por su historia apasible de personajes serenos. Leer Seda es también tocar seda, es palpar la femeneidad a la distancia -la local y la extranjera-, es entrar en contacto con momentos de aire, momentos de levedad, momentos de seda.

La trama está tejida con el cuidado de una hilandería y la seriedad de un autor que sabe lo que hace. Su erotismo es exacto y el juego con la figura de la muje...more

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Mar 21, 2011 Nadine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, read-in-2011

Im 19. Jahrhundert verschreibt sich ein französisches Dorf der Seidenspinnerei. Nachdem die Seidenraupen, die sie normalerweise aus Italien importieren in einem Jahr in Europa und Afrika von einer Krankheit befallen sind, schicken sie Hervé Joncour nach Japan, um dort gesunde Seidenraupen zu kaufen.
Dort begegnet er der Konkubine seines Handelspartners, und es entwickelt sich über die Jahre in denen er jährlich nach Japan fährt, um dort Raupen zu kaufen, eine zarte Liebesbeziehung, ohne dass die...more

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Nov 03, 2012 Mohamed Nida نيده rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012

"كان يستمتع بممتلكاته باتزان، أما الاحتمال غير الواقعي بأن يحقق ثروة حقيقية فقد جعله لا يكترث بشيء.
هذا إلى جانب أنه كان واحدًا من أولئك الناس الذين يحبون أن يكونوا مراقبين لحياتهم... أما أي طموح فعلي للمشاركة فيها فيعتبره أمرًا غير مناسب.
لاحظ أن أمثال هؤلاء يراقبون مصائرهم، كما يميل معظم الناس إلى مراقبة يوم مطير..."
هذا هو هيرفي جونكور - بطل الرواية - يعيش حياة بسيطة هادئة مع زوجته وبلا أطفال.
رواية قصيرة خفيفة ذات جمل قصيرة بسيطة وأسلوب سلس بدون تكلُّف تصلح للقراءة بعد امتحان جراحة قميء.

نوفمبر 2...more

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Nov 13, 2012 Amandine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Amandine by: Chloé

Shelves: 20e-et-21e-siècles, contes-et-détournements, letto-in-italiano-lu-en-italien

[Lu en italien] Peut-être attends-je trop de cet auteur après en avoir entendu tant de bien, notamment par Chloé, mais je ne comprends pas l’engouement autour de ses œuvres. Ma lecture de Soie fut agréable, c’est une belle histoire, mais cela s’arrête là pour moi, sans plus ni moins.

On m’avait notamment vanté la poésie de ce texte. Peut-être est-ce dû à ma lecture en italien, donc moins aisée qu’en français (bien que Baricco soit d’après moi un auteur assez facile à lire), mais je n’ai pas du to...more

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Mar 08, 2009 Catherine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bookcrossing, more-than-once

From what turned out to be a second reading
October 2012
A little book with lots of repetition, and near-repetition, that makes it more like a poem than a novel and makes me want to read it in the original to see how the cadences work in Italian.

I'm sure I've heard the story of a Frenchman who smuggled silkworm eggs before, but I can't remember where. (I had, and now know when and where!) Who knows, he may even have existed, but I'm too lazy to go Googling right now.

I enjoyed the unresolved myst...more

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Feb 06, 2009 Michael rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Aparentemente, a cualquier ser humano normal con 3 neuronas deberia gustarle "Seda". Lo que dejaria tres posibilidades:
a) No soy un ser humano normal
b) No tengo 3 neuronas
c) Una combinacion de las dos anteriores

Me recomendaron mucho el libro, y los comentarios de la edicion que lei eran muy elogiosos (Vargas Llosa la llama "una historia misteriosa, laconica, perfecta"). A mi, la verdad, no me impresiono (salvo por la extension, porque este es otro de los casos en los que uno no sabe si es una no...more

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Oct 14, 2007 Angela rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, romance

Herve's life is told like poetry falling like rain. A quiet spectacle. Delicate and rich and silently stepping. And what is not said, but ultimately felt, is the tale of a heart in crisis. Herve's story is told, but you realize in the end that it's his wife's too. As one of the reviewers put it, it, "brings home how longing for things that can never be can obscure the things that are."

"It's a strange grief...to die of nostalgia for something you never lived."

My Interpretation (warning--spoiler)...more Herve's life is told like poetry falling like rain. A quiet spectacle. Delicate and rich and silently stepping. And what is not said, but ultimately felt, is the tale of a heart in crisis. Herve's story is told, but you realize in the end that it's his wife's too. As one of the reviewers put it, it, "brings home how longing for things that can never be can obscure the things that are."

"It's a strange grief...to die of nostalgia for something you never lived."

My Interpretation (warning--spoiler):

Herve was changed by Japan. Helene witnessed his restlessness, melancholia and distance. He remained at her side because she had a beautiful voice, because she did no harm to anyone, because she was devoted, and because she was his wife and she lived in his town. Maybe Balbadiou told her. Because she then wanted to become that woman, that mysterious woman, the object of her husband's captive passion. She understood then that Herve would not be freed of her until his passion was consummated. So she wrote the letter, and in the writing of it longed to and became that woman. What the exotic distant elusive unattainable woman did not and could not give she gave as though she was she. And quiesced him. How hard it must have been for her to wait all those months for his returns. And how hard to feel his distance and to learn its object. How hard and yet fitting to never bear his child. She was always longing for something he could never give her, but she loved him anyway, and he lovingly tolerated her. That letter of passion was her passion for him. As he returned to her at the end of each journey, so he returned to her at the end of his heart's wandering.

"He was one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate...His life fell like rain before his eyes, a quiet spectacle." Both husband and wife lived lives of equanimity. As Herve's contrived return to Japan constituted his only maneuvering in a life of observation, so was his wife's subterfuge her only deceit in a life of transparent devotion.

"To each one, Balbadiou had revealed, without hesitation, the secrets of the work. This amused him much more than making money. Teaching. And having secrets to tell. He was a man like that." The deux ex machina of Herve's life.

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Feb 05, 2007 Kitty-Wu rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: myfavs

Ésta no es una novela. Ni siquiera es un cuento. Ésta es una historia. Empieza con un hombre que atraviesa el mundo, y acaba con un lago que permanece inmóvil, en una jornada de viento. El hombre se llama Hervé Joncour. El lago, no se sabe. Se podría decir que es una historia de amor. Pero si solamente fuera eso, no habría valido la pena contarla. En ella están entremezclados deseos y dolores, que se sabe muy bien lo que son, pero que no tienen un nombre exacto que los designe. Y, en todo caso,...more

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May 17, 2009 Evan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: tami-tomes, 2009-reads, asia, yearning

"He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation."

OK, for 125 pages I'm reading this thinking, "three stars, nice little story, fast read; wish more novelists could tell a sweeping romantic adventure tale with such dispatch. Vivid, enjoyable, and even educational, but no great shakes."

And then I get to the end, and realize the power of the wife's desire. What she does. How he realizes what she did, and how she had felt. How she knew about his inner life,...more

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Sep 11, 2007 Pamela rated it 4 of 5 stars

Silk is the sort of novella-cum-folk tale for which you'd be doing yourself a great disservice to not read in one sitting. It's difficult for me to explain the appeal of novels like these (The Piano Tuner, The Painted Veil): 19th century white guy voyages into interior of the Orient and meets a mysterious woman. The whole plot smacks of the kind of fetishistic orientalism that I hate. And yet, with an tightly-wound economy that borders on poetry, Baricco distills the intensity and intoxication o...more

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Apr 26, 2011 Ritz rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Ritz by: Kitty-Wu

Shelves: recomendados_sugerencias_bestseller, autor_a_b, cuento_fábula_relato

Estamos todos de acuerdo en que Seda no es una novela. Muchos coinciden en que es un cuento.

Es una metáfora sobre el poder del deseo sobre las acciones humanas, por su etérea fuerza de atracción, su capacidad de prevalecer, atraer y hasta destruir a su paso.

Seda es una historia fugaz y sencilla de agradable lectura, de una prosa poética 'económica' como diría el amigo @patxi.

Baricco usa ciertas reiteraciones como estribillos de versos y a pesar de su corta extensión es capaz de elevar a su lec...more

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Mar 04, 2013 Gale rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance

SILK
Delicately Enmeshed in the Mystique of Japan

Torn between desire in the orient and duty in the Europe young Herve Joncour (whose full name is always given) suffers pangs of internal disquiet. Sent by an older but enterprising friend, Baldabiou, to make several grim pilgrimages to Japan—a dangerous and time consuming journey in the mid 19th century--the young man is mesmerized by the tacit beauty of his host’s European-looking concubine. Although they never speak, she manages to slip him a...more

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Feb 25, 2013 Cynthia Collu rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Mio figlio quindicenne lo ha appena finito e me lo passa. "Leggilo, mamma, è bellissimo." Siamo distesi sulla spiaggia finissima e bianca di Pittulongu, Sardegna. Il vento discreto ci porta gli odori della macchia che riempiono il nostro pigro accoccolarci al sole di languore e comprensione verso ogni parvenza di vita.
Leggerlo? Perché no?
Inizio la lettura. Mio figlio e gli amici entrano in acqua. Io rimango distesa sulla sabbia finissima ecc., al massimo ogni tanto mi giro per sfuggire al rive...more

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Feb 23, 2013 Katia added it · review of another edition

J'ai emprunté ce livre-audio à la bibliothèque parce que je lorgnais dessus depuis longtemps, et puis l'emprunt est une bonne façon de découvrir ce mode de lecture ! C'est donc pleine de curiosité que j'ai commencé l'écoute de ce roman en voiture, et je ne vous fait pas attendre davantage pour vous dire que j'ai adoré.
Tout d'abord parlons du roman. Soie est un roman très poétique, racontant les aventures d'un homme qui se lance dans l'élevage de vers à soie, activité peu répandue en 1860. Ainsi...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Shaun rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2013, favorites

I picked this book up in a second hand store because I liked the name and the cover.

Wow.

There are stories that entertain, there are stories that make you think, there are stories that transport you to another time and place. And then there are stories that change you, even if only a little. Stories that open up some new way of thinking about life and relationships.

Silk does all the above and more. A love story that is both beautiful and tragic, sensual and sad, the narrative is told from the p...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Olga Chen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Extremely beautiful, maybe too subtle for most of people. It can be boring and too weird, but I personally loved it. I don't blame them, since it's a very unique and special feeling I have towards it. Also, the movie captures the essence of the book, in my opinion.

It's hard to explain why I liked so much the book, it's a really personal matter and also very subjective. I read it a long time ago, but I have a very special feeling for the book, it's like Baricco says: "To be nostalgic about somet...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Ditta rated it 5 of 5 stars

Silk is one of those very rare books that you just keep and re-read every now and then, on a cold autumn evening perhaps, with a cup of lapsang souchong, or at a spring twilight when you have that unfathomable, undescribable longing in your whole being. Well, that's how I imagine at least, having just bought and read it yesterday.

Haunting book. Defies a straightforward review. I guess it might change every time one reads it. It must be like a strange and curious silk garment, woven of nothing :...more

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Alessandro Baricco is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages, and include Lands of Glass, Silk, Ocean Sea, City, and Without Blood. His theatrical monologue, Novecento, was adapted into film, titled The Legend of 1900.

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“إنه ألمٌ غـريب , أن تموت من الحنين لشـيء.. لم تعشـه أبداً” — 49 people liked it

“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say” — 38 people liked it

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