description: A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear.Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco's novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.
language: German
title: Oceano Mare. Das Märchen vom Wesen des Meeres.
titlecomplete: Oceano Mare. Das Märchen vom Wesen des Meeres.
characters: Dr. Savigny, Father Pluche, Dood, Adams, Edel Trut, Michael Plasson, Ann Deveria, Elisewin Carewall, Dira, Ditz, Professor Ismael Adelante Ismael Bartleboom, Dol
genres: Italian Literature, Magical Realism, Classics, Italy, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 23769
places: Almayer Inn
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci
publisher: Piper