The young bride - Brossura

Baricco, Alessandro

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1609453344 ISBN 13: 9781609453343

Casa editrice: Europa Editions, 2016

Riassunto

From international bestselling author, Alessandro Baricco, comes a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family.
 
The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of a noble family. She is to make her preparations for marriage at the family’s villa, where the inhabitants never seem to sleep. The atmosphere turns surreal as the days pass and her presence on the family estate begins to make itself felt on her future in-laws.
 
In this erotically charged and magical novel, Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the rules of causation as he tells a story, an adult fable, about fate and the difficult job of confronting the Other and creating an Us.

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Recensione:

"A work of elegance, eroticism and playful make-believe." --Wall Street Journal

"Opaque, fascinating and delicate, a story that will insidiously grow roots in your mind." --Love Reading

"There is no doubt in my mind that Baricco had a fine old time giving this virtuoso literary performance. Neither do I doubt that Ann Goldstein relished translating it." --Euro Lit Network

"Baricco's novel has a dream-like quality." --Mail on Sunday

Praise for Alessandro Baricco

SILK

"Silk has the brilliant colors . . . and the enchantment of a miniature. Vividly erotic." -- Newsday

"Silk is a riveting, lyrical love story, an accomplished historical fiction, a compact, condensed . . . epic about human hearts in crisis." -- Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered

"Silk is a heart-breaking love story... A stylistic tour de force [and] a literary gem of bewitching power." -- The Sunday Times

&quotDeeply moving - A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire." -- The Guardian

"A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable... A literary gem of bewitching power." -- The Sunday Times

"One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read." -- Daily Telegraph

OCEAN SEA

"Compelling, profound and sharply funny." -- Stephanie Merritt, The Observer

"Highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical." --New York Times Book Review

THREE TIMES AT DAWN

"Baricco has produced a beguilingly unusual, Three Times at Dawn reads like the love child of Virginia Woolf and Haruki Murakami." -- Rachel Donadio, New York Times

MR GWYN

"[Mr. Gwyn's] shifting perspectives and impressive handling of ambiguity make it an entirely beguiling read: a cerebral mystery contained with a tale of artistic struggle."-- Tobias Carroll, Star Tribune

AN ILYAD

"... a wonderful, gripping take on a story that has haunted our culture since it was first told." -- The Times

"You won't, and can't, put it down." -- The Observer

"A work of elegance, eroticism and playful make-believe." --Wall Street Journal

"There is no doubt in my mind that Baricco had a fine old time giving this virtuoso literary performance. Neither do I doubt that Ann Goldstein relished translating it." --Euro Lit Network"Opaque, fascinating and delicate, a story that will insidiously grow roots in your mind." --Love Reading

L'autore:

Alessandro Baricco, beloved by readers worldwide for his innovative take on magical realism, his atmospheric novels and memorable characters, is one of Italy's bestselling and most critically acclaimed authors. His novels include Silk (Vintage, 1998), An Iliad (Vintage International, 2006), and Mr. Gwyn (McSweeney's, 2014).

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• Editore: Europa Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1609453344
• ISBN 13: 9781609453343
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174