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An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A bold re-imagining of our civilization's greatest tale of war, from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Silk. In An Iliad, Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters, in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. From the return of Chryse ...Show more
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco; Alastair McEwen (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but ...Show more
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour, a young silk breeder, has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by ...Show more
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