FICHE PRODUIT
SILK
13,50€
Auteur(s)
Baricco, Alessandro
Éditeur(s)
Canongate
Genre
Traductions / Translations
DISPONIBILITE
disponible sur commande
Date de parution
07/09/2006
Format
198.00 x 129.00 mm
Nombre de pages
160
Support
Paperback B-format
EAN
9781841958354
Resumé
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.