num_pages: 256
description: This haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance by the author of the international bestseller Silk surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.
language: English
title: Ocean Sea
titlecomplete: Ocean Sea
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: Vintage