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When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour (a young silkworm breeder) has to travel overland to distant Japan, to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine, a girl who does not have oriental eyes.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This sensual and hypnotic novel tells a story of adventure and obsession. In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine ...

  • BookDepository

    Silk : Paperback : Canongate Books Ltd : 9781841958354 : : 07 Sep 2006 : 'Deeply moving - a delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire' Guardian

  • Foyles

    'Deeply moving - a delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire' Guardian

  • Pickabook

    Alessandro Baricco, Ann Goldstein (Trans)

  • 1841958352
  • 9781841958354
  • Alessandro Baricco
  • 7 September 2006
  • Canongate Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 112
  • New edition
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