Alessandro Baricco is one of the most prominent authors of contemporary prose and a defining figure in Italian literature. His bestseller «Silk» won worldwide acclaim and has been translated into dozens of languages. This is a delicate, piercing novel about love—fragile, touching, and surprisingly beautiful. A story of the feelings of a young Frenchman, his wife, and a European geisha is mesmerizing and impossible to let go of.
Refined sensuality, light sadness, and tender gentleness, long roads and wanderings, attempts to find true happiness that seems distant and beckoning (even though it is actually very close—it's just that the hero doesn't notice it, chasing his dream!),—all of this is woven into «Silk», a gentle and stirring book about love…