1morechapter.com » italian http://www.1morechapter.com Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:29:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Review: Silk by Alessandro Bariccohttp://www.1morechapter.com/2008/05/04/review-silk-by-alessandro-baricco/ http://www.1morechapter.com/2008/05/04/review-silk-by-alessandro-baricco/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 05:37:25 +0000 3m http://1morechapter.com/2008/05/04/review-silk-by-alessandro-baricco/ Silk is a novella about obsession, longing, and love. It’s the 1860′s and Herve Joncour, a married French merchant of silkworms, goes to Japan several times for eggs. While there, he meets a young concubine who is not Japanese but cannot communicate in anything except Japanese. Joncour becomes obsessed; meanwhile, his wife [...]]]> silk.JPGSilk is a novella about obsession, longing, and love. It’s the 1860′s and Herve Joncour, a married French merchant of silkworms, goes to Japan several times for eggs. While there, he meets a young concubine who is not Japanese but cannot communicate in anything except Japanese. Joncour becomes obsessed; meanwhile, his wife back home waits patiently for him during every trip he takes. Will either of them get what they long for?

Sigh. This was a well-written novella; but again, it was just too graphic in parts for my tastes. I have a difficult time believing that one of the female characters would write a letter such as the one found in this book, but who knows. On a positive note, this is my first book completed for the 1% Well-Read Challenge, so I guess that means I’m 0.1% well-read.

1996, 91 pp.
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