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 Am
From international bestselling author, Alessandro Baricco, comes a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family. The hand of the young woman i
After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a ?copyist,” holding thirty-day sittings in a meti
A manifesto on the state of global culture by one of Italy's most respected literary voices explores how connectivity is changing the way culture is being experienced, citing the rise of ambitious out
Follows four friends, all devout Catholics from poor, but proud, Italian families as they advance from adolescence to manhood, fighting the problems and uncertainty of youth, while attracted to the sa
The story was made into The Legend of 1900, a 1998 film starring Tim Roth. Told through the eyes of Novecento’s (the greatest pianist who ever played on the ocean) best friend, trumpeter Tim Tooney,
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 – M
In the 1860s, when Japan is still closed to foreigners, Herve Joncour, a young French merchant, makes a series of clandestine journeys across Siberia to Japan, at first to purchase silkworm eggs, and
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 twe
"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book ReviewWith Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved hims
The decline and fall of the famous libertine. "The crazy life and courageous death of a man who loved women too much to want only one." Don Juan is a passionate lover of life and nearly 1,000 women. O
