Re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, the author forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience....more details Format:Hardback
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Alessandro Baricco
ISBN:9783865606488
Over the last few years, the young Georgian artist Andro Wekua has broken on the international art scene with enigmatic installations made of sculptures...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:48
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Alessandro Baricco
ISBN:9780140293289
A Number One bestseller on publication in Italy, CITY is a dazzlingly inventive novel from the prize-winning author of SILK. In Baricco's words: "CITY is an important title for me...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
'CITY is an important title for me, because it expresses what this book has always been in my head. A city. No particular city. An impression of a city rather...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
The Italy of Alessandro Baricco's "Emmaus" is one of stark contrasts: the secular and the pious, the rich and the poor, those with "a capacity for destiny" and those who "cannot afford it." And it's in all of the latter that we find our four protagonists: Bobby...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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Alessandro Baricco
ISBN:9781847671035
Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience his predecessor never explored. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of Hector...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Alessandro Baricco
ISBN:9780241141748
From one of Italy's most brilliant and most inventive writers comes the story of two visionaries of the mid-nineteenth century. Mr Rail is a small-town entrepreneur and glass-maker...more details Format:Hardback Pages:240
From one of Italy's most brilliant and most inventive writers comes the story of two visionaries of the mid-nineteenth century and a tale of angry visions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
Converging at a remote seaside inn are a lovelorn professor, an inscrutable seductress, a renowned painter and a beautiful young girl, seemingly fatally ill...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
In this suspense novel, a handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter and a beautiful young girl...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Alessandro Baricco
ISBN:9781921145483
When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour, a young silk breeder, has to travel overland to distant Japan...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Alessandro Baricco
ISBN:9781841958354
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:112
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Alessandro Baricco
ISBN:9781877008979
A collaborator is hunted down to an isolated farmhouse and butchered as his little girl hides in the cellar. When the youngest of the killers finds her...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Alessandro Baricco;Ann Goldstein
ISBN:9780307275394
A bold re-imagining of our civilization's greatest tale of war, from the acclaimed and bestselling author of "Silk." In "An Iliad," Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters...more details Format:Paperback Pages:158
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Alessandro Baricco;Ann Goldstein
ISBN:9780307263551
A bold reimagining of our civilization's greatest tale of war, by the author of the acclaimed best seller "Silk." Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:158
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Alessandro Baricco;Ann Goldstein
ISBN:9780375703959
"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--"The New York Times Book Review" With Silk, his first novel to appear in English...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Alessandro Baricco;Ann Goldstein
ISBN:9780307277978
The year is 1861. Herve Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther...more details Format:Paperback Pages:132
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Alessandro Baricco;Ann Goldstein
ISBN:9781400034789
An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war - and one girl's quest for revenge and healing, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller "Silk." When - in an unnamed place and time - Manuel Roca's enemies hunt him down to kill him...more details Format:Paperback Pages:97