Silk
By: translated from the Italian by Guido Waldman.
Publisher: Harvill Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: Seta
Number of pages: 91
Description: In 1860, France's silk trade is threatened by an epidemic. To obtain uncontaminated silk worm eggs, a young man goes on a clandestine journey to Japan--where he falls in love with a lovely, non-Oriental concubine. This critically acclaimed narrative, seamless as a piece of fine silk, plays on the imagination, haunting as a strain of beautiful music.
Notes: Translation of 'Seta'.