Alessandro Baricco

Um medico vive com seus dois filhos pequenos numa velha fazenda isolada no campo.Um dia,quatro homens fortemente armados chegam pela estrada poeirenta. Algo terrivel e indescritivel esta para acontecer entre faccoes inimigas de uma guerra recem-terminada. A violencia e a furia das represalias logo se instalam na …

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 …

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 …

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.