Silk. Alessandro Baricco

      

      Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of thirteen novels, as well as a number of essay and short story collections, a modern rendition of The Iliad and a theatrical monologue. He has won the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Selezione Campiello, Viareggio and Palazzo al Bosco prizes in Italy. Ann Goldstein is a frequent translator from the Italian. She has translated works by, among others, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco, Elena Ferrante, Erri De Luca and Roberto Calasso.

       Selected works in translation by Alessandro Baricco

       The Young BrideThree Times at DawnMr GwynEmmausWithout BloodAn IliadCityOcean SeaLands of Glass

       Copyright

      Canons edition published in Great Britain in 2019 by Canongate Books

      First published in Great Britain in 2006 by

      Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street,

      Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      This digital edition first published in 2009

      by Canongate Books

      canongate.co.uk

      Copyright © Alessandro Baricco, 1997

      English translation copyright © Alessandro Baricco, 2006

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted

      The publisher gratefully acknowledges subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council towards the publication of this volume

      This English translation was supported by

      the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78689 642 1

      eISBN 978 1 84767 849 2

      Contents

       Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 Chapter 62 Chapter 63 Chapter 64 Chapter 65

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