Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958 and still makes his home there. The author of four previous novels, he has won the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Selezione Campiello, Viareggio, and Palazzo al Bosco prizes in Italy.
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An Iliad
eBook | 176 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-48618-9 (0-307-48618-4)
December 10, 2008 | $15.99
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 Chryseis to the burial of...
Written by Alessandro Baricco
eBook | 176 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-48618-9 (0-307-48618-4)
December 10, 2008 | $15.99
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 Chryseis to the burial of...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)
eBook | 144 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49095-7 (0-307-49095-5)
December 10, 2008 | $17.99
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.
There Joncour...
eBook | 144 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49095-7 (0-307-49095-5)
December 10, 2008 | $17.99
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.
There Joncour...
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trade paperback.
Without Blood
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-3478-9 (1-4000-3478-7)
March 11, 2008 | $14.95
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...
Written by Alessandro Baricco
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-3478-9 (1-4000-3478-7)
March 11, 2008 | $14.95
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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Without Blood
eBook | 160 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-38936-7 (0-307-38936-7)
March 11, 2008 | $15.99
From the author of the acclaimed international best-seller Silk, here is an unforgettable tale of the cruelty of war, a little girl’s shattered world, and her lifelong quest for revenge and healing.
When—in an unnamed place and time—Manuel Roca’s enemies hunt him down, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child, hidden...
Written by Alessandro Baricco
eBook | 160 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-38936-7 (0-307-38936-7)
March 11, 2008 | $15.99
From the author of the acclaimed international best-seller Silk, here is an unforgettable tale of the cruelty of war, a little girl’s shattered world, and her lifelong quest for revenge and healing.
When—in an unnamed place and time—Manuel Roca’s enemies hunt him down, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child, hidden...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
City
eBook | 336 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-42527-0 (0-307-42527-4)
December 18, 2007 | $16.00
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 are an imaginary...
Written by Alessandro Baricco
eBook | 336 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-42527-0 (0-307-42527-4)
December 18, 2007 | $16.00
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 are an imaginary...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27797-8 (0-307-27797-6)
August 28, 2007 | $17.99
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.
There Joncour...
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27797-8 (0-307-27797-6)
August 28, 2007 | $17.99
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.
There Joncour...
Also available as an
eBook.
An Iliad
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27539-4 (0-307-27539-6)
August 14, 2007 | $16.00
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 Chryseis to the burial of...
Written by Alessandro Baricco
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27539-4 (0-307-27539-6)
August 14, 2007 | $16.00
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 Chryseis to the burial of...
Also available as an
eBook.
City
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-375-72548-7 (0-375-72548-2)
June 17, 2003 | $20.00
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 are an imaginary...
Written by Alessandro Baricco
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-375-72548-7 (0-375-72548-2)
June 17, 2003 | $20.00
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 are an imaginary...
Also available as an
eBook.
Ocean Sea
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-70395-9 (0-375-70395-0)
June 27, 2000 | $15.95
"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review
With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern...
Written by Alessandro Baricco
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-70395-9 (0-375-70395-0)
June 27, 2000 | $15.95
"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review
With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern...
