Silk
Baricco, Alessandro1998
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The French silk trade is threatened by an epidemic and Herve Joncour travels to 1860s Japan to attempt to obtain clean eggs. He falls in love with a non-Japanese concubine but the affair is carried out secretively and provides a most delicate ending.
Main title:
Silk / Alessandro Baricco ; translated from the Italian by Guido Waldman.
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Imprint:
London : Harvill, 1998.
Collation:
104p. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: 1997.Translaion of: Seta.
ISBN:
18604636659781860463662
Dewey class:
853.9'14
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
255373
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