by Alessandro Baricco · Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422668213
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«Seda» is the novel by Alessandro Baricco, published by Anagrama in hardcover, with 154 pages, in Spanish.
In nineteenth-century France, Hervé Joncour makes his living trading silkworm eggs. When an epidemic ruins European production, he travels to Japan in search of new specimens and there meets a young woman whose image he will not be able to forget. The story delves into desire, distance and what remains unspoken.
Work originally published in Italian as «Seta» in 1996; translation by Carlos Gumpert and Xavier González Rovira.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction seeking a brief, poetic narrative set between Europe and Japan.
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a number of languages.
