Silk

The debut novel by the successful Italian author Alessandro Baricco: a poetic and tender parable of love In the middle of the 19th century, Hervé Joncour makes several trips to Japan. There he tries to buy the coveted eggs of the silkworm. At the court of his business partner, he has an encounter with a beautiful woman that is as wordless as it is momentous and whose fascination never lets him go. His passion grows from journey to journey, his last expedition ends sadly: Japan is devastated by war, the beautiful woman has disappeared. What Hervé Joncour has left of this unfulfilled passion are daydreams and the memory of a distant and inaccessible world.