Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Baricco, Alessandro; Goldstein, Ann |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 8/28/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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 countrylegendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.
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