Alessandro Baricco - Böcker

In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they don't even speak. And he cannot read the note s...

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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, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of...

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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...

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The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an int...

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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, in the narrat...

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At the turn of the 20th Century, the great cruise liner Virginia shuttles back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, transporting passengers from old Europe to the New World. When an abandoned baby is found on board the sailors christen Novecento -...

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Without Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the attackers. Nina is just four years old. Decades la...

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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 exp...

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Jasper Gwyn, ein berühmter englischer Schriftsteller Anfang vierzig, fasst eines Tages einen weitreichenden Entschluss. In einem Zeitungsartikel listet er 52 Dinge auf, die er fortan nicht mehr zu tun gedenkt, darunter auch: Bücher schreiben. Stat...

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Alessandro Barikko ? odin iz yarchajshih sovremennyh pisatelej, simvol ital''yanskoj literatury. Ego bestseller «SHelk» vsemirno izvesten i pereveden na desyatki yazykov. EHto roman o lyubvi, trogatel''noj i neveroyatno krasivoj. Istoriya otnosh...

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Gromkim uspekhom Alessandro Barikko, odnogo iz yarchajshih sovremennyh pisatelej, stal predstavlennyj v nastoyashchem izdanii roman «More-okean», udostoennyj premij Viaredzho i «Palacco al'' Bosko». V taverne «Al''majer» na beregu okeana zab...

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Glavnyj personazh novogo romana Alessandro Barikko «Mister Gvin» ? pisatel'', prichem ves''ma uspeshnyj. Ego obozhayut chitateli i hvalyat kritiki; knigi, vyshedshie iz-pod ego pera, nemedlenno raskupayutsya. No vot odnazhdy, posle dolgoj progul...

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CHitatelyam, ocenivshim prekrasnyj roman Alessandro Barikko «Mister Gvin», budet interesno prochest'' ego novuyu knigu, nazvannuyu «Trizhdy na zare». No ch''yu imenno knigu ? Barikko ili zagadochnogo mistera Gvina? Bez poslednego uzh tochno ne...

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"e;Zamki gneva - pervyj roman Alessandro Barikko, s nego nachalas' istoriya literaturnogo uspekha ehtogo udivitel'nogo pisatelya. Iz "e;Zamkov gneva prorastayut takie ego vershinnye proizvedeniya, kak "e;SHelk, "e;More-okean, "...

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This is not a novel. It is not even a story. It is a history. It begins with a man who travels the world. The man's name is Hervé Joncour. You could call it a love story, but if it was only this it would not have been worth telling. The book combi...

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