Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9780307490957
ISBN-13 : 0307490955
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Book Synopsis Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition) by : Alessandro Baricco

Download or read book Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition) written by Alessandro Baricco and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.


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