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A haunting and delicately erotic novella -- Mail on Sunday. A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable A literary gem of bewitching power -- Sunday Times. 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. Silk is the perfect pick-up book. A book of startling images and ideas -- Observer
Young Herve Joncour has to leave his doting wife, Helene, and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu, France and travel across Siberia through to Japan, to obtain uncontaminated silkworm eggs for breeding. He meets a local baron's concubine and falls in love.
Young Herve Joncour has to leave his doting wife, Helene, and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu, France and travel across Siberia through to Japan, to obtain uncontaminated silkworm eggs for breeding. He meets a local baron's concubine and falls in love.
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This startling, sensual, hypnotically compelling novel tells a story of adventure, sexual enthrallment, and a love so powerful that it unhinges a man's life. In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour is compelled to travel to Japan, where, in the court of an enigmatic nobleman, he 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 country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed. The same spell will envelop anyone who reads Silk, a work that has the compression of a fable, the evocative detail of the greatest historical fiction, and the devastating erotic force of a dream.
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"A heart-breaking love story." --The Sunday Times (London)
"A riveting, lyrical love story, an accomplished historical fiction, a compact, condensed little epic about human hearts in crisis." --Allan Cheuse, All Things Considered (NPR)
"A book with language to savor. . . . [It] seems as guileless as a folk tale but propels a reader with real force." --Denver Post
"Silk has the brilliant colors, the compressed life and the enchantment of a miniature. . . . Vividly erotic." --Newsday
"A riveting, lyrical love story, an accomplished historical fiction, a compact, condensed little epic about human hearts in crisis." --Allan Cheuse, All Things Considered (NPR)
"A book with language to savor. . . . [It] seems as guileless as a folk tale but propels a reader with real force." --Denver Post
"Silk has the brilliant colors, the compressed life and the enchantment of a miniature. . . . Vividly erotic." --Newsday
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 186046310X
- ISBN 13 9781860463105
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