Silk
«Mesmerising and starkly beautiful»
* Observer *
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 - but they cannot touch; they don't even speak. Les mer
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Subtle, tender and surprising, Silk is an evocative tale of erotic possession.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Canongate Canons
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 160
- ISBN
- 9781786896421
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Mesmerising and starkly beautiful»
* Observer *
«A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable . . . A stylistic tour de force, a literary gem of bewitching power»
* Sunday Times *
«Deeply moving . . . A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire»
* Guardian *
«An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires . . . One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read»
* Daily Telegraph *
«Haunting and delicately erotic»
* Mail on Sunday *