Silk
By: Alessandro Baricco ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Contributors: Goldstein, Ann, 1948-
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780307277978
Work titles: Seta.
Description: In the late 1860s, when Japan is still closed to foreigners, Herve Joncour, a young French merchant, makes a series of clandestine journeys across Siberia to Japan, at first to purchase silkworm eggs, and later to pursue an affair with a Japanese nobleman's concubine.