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Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ocean Sea
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2000
Price: $13.95
"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, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2000
Price: $13.95
"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, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern... Read more >
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An Iliad
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $12.95
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 narrative idiom of our modern imagination. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $12.95
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 narrative idiom of our modern imagination. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Without Blood
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $12.95
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, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $12.95
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, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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City
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $13.00
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 intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $13.00
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 intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary... Read more >
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eBook.
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City
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
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 intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary... Read more >
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
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 intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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An Iliad
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $12.95
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 narrative idiom of our modern imagination. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of... Read more >
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $12.95
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 narrative idiom of our modern imagination. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Without Blood
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $12.95
From the author of the acclaimed international best-seller Silk, here is an unforgettable tale of the cruelty of war, a little girl’s shattered world, and her lifelong quest for revenge and healing.
When—in an unnamed place and time—Manuel Roca’s enemies hunt him down, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child, hidden... Read more >
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $12.95
From the author of the acclaimed international best-seller Silk, here is an unforgettable tale of the cruelty of war, a little girl’s shattered world, and her lifelong quest for revenge and healing.
When—in an unnamed place and time—Manuel Roca’s enemies hunt him down, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child, hidden... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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