Alessandro Baricco

A Selyem Alessandro Baricco olasz író 1996-ban megjelent novellája, melyből 2007-ben film is készült.

Ocean Sea is a 1993 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. Its narrative revolves around the lives of a group of people gathered at a remote seaside hotel. The novel won the Viareggio Prize.

The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions …

An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war – and one girl's quest for revenge and healing, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Silk.When – in an unnamed place and time – Manuel Roca's enemies hunt him down to kill him, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child, hidden in a hole …

A bold reimagining of our civilization’s greatest tale of war, by the author of the acclaimed best seller Silk.Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. Sacrificing none of Homer’s panoramic scope, Baricco …

A regény Ultimo Parri sorsát kíséri végig, akit az olvasó kisfiúként ismer meg, a 20. század elején, és aki távoli országokban, különös kalandokban úgy öregszik meg, hogy egyetlen célja: rendet teremteni a világban. Ötéves, amikor megpillantja az első...