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product_id: 15327615
title: "Silk"
brand: "alessandro bariccoann goldstein"
price: "172 Lei"
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reviews_count: 11
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# Silk

**Brand:** alessandro bariccoann goldstein
**Price:** 172 Lei
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- **What is this?** Silk by alessandro bariccoann goldstein
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Silk

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Definitely Rayon
  

*by G***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2007*

I found the book to be puerile rubbish. It was so far from having anything to do with reality I don't understand why the author did not title it something like "Peter Rabbit Goes to La La Land."To those who know something about Japan this book can afford them great pleasure in pointing out that every single thing about Japan that is mentioned in the book is wrong: from the names of provinces (which were different from modern prefectures); clothing (dresses spreading out all over the floor which kimono do not); hairstyles (a retro "chonmage" might be believable, but a ponytail on a Japanese leader is not); to some Japanese people living in "palaces" (castles in the case of powerful "daimyo," but "palaces"? Gimme a break).I suspect that anyone who knows a little about silk; 19th century travel; billiards; Southern France; or anything else the frail mind of the author has touched would be equally aghast.The people who have written that this is the most beautiful book they have read could not possibly have read another book save, perhaps, "Harry Potter." Those interested in the Japanese aspect of the story might try 
  
The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)







  
  
    ,
  
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese







  
  
    ,
  
One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (New Directions Book)







  
  
    , or 
  
Women Poets of Japan







  
  
    . For those interested in late 19th century France there is 
  
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant







  
  
    .Let's take one small section of the book: The author has the main Japanese male character say that it is an ancient law that allows the sentencing to death of a servant who carries a love letter for his mistress and that is why a boy servant was hung. Hung? Why are Japanese warriors so noted for their swords? Executions of any kind involve beheading (even including ritual suicide). Casual death dealing might just be a quick slash. Hanging? Unheard of. If the carrying of the love letters of one's mistress was a capital offense then I entirely missed the carnage in "The Tale of Genji" where servants carrying love letters of masters and mistresses was mandatory and most definitely not a capital offense. If the boy servant in this book was executed for "being" the love letter, how much more dangerous must it have been for the object of that love letter, the ostensible lover Herve? Yet, his life was spared and he was merely shooed away. This book makes no sense, primarily because the author is an uneducated dolt.Is one reason this book is considered romantic because the main female character gives Herve the least poetic and most inauspicious note, the one that says, "Come back, or I shall die."? What kind of  woman would express feelings of attachment by means of death images and threats of suicide? What kind of man would fall for it?In a nutshell: This is one of those rare cases where the book is worse than the movie based upon it, which itself was quite bad. How could one expect it to be otherwise?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    As soft, subtle and exquisite as the finest...
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2008*

Alessandro Baricco knows the fine art of storytelling. His use of colors, tenderness, eroticism and time weave a most beautiful canvas print of words.Silk is the International Bestseller about Hervé Joncour, a thirty two year old Frenchman living in the 1860's. While on leave from the Armed Forces, Joncour meets with a friend, Baldabieu, who is a successful owner of multiple silk mills in Lavilledieu, their small French village. After telling Joncour the devastation that will soon hit the area due to a sickness in the silkworms, and a grand and wonderous answer to the problem in traveling to faraway Japan, Joncour decides to accept the challenge and make the journey.The beauty in the story is wrapped in the silk that is Joncour's travels... all that he sees, experiences and feels, and the people he meets in a world so unknown to his own. Blend in the warm receptions upon his return by his wife Hélén, and the slow weaving of an burning enigma through the chance encounters with a beautiful women in Japan and...Well, I'll let Baricco tell you the story, for it truly is amazing. And, this was a very fast read. At less than 200 pages, I was able to read it in one sitting, which I never do. An excellent story told with such elegance and eloquence will leave readers wanting more. I definitely recommend reading the book before watching the movie, which is an impeccable translation from book to screen, and one of the most beautiful adaptations ever, in every sense of the word.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Beautiful and Quietly Erotic Novel
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2013*

A beautiful short novel that combines a spare and elegant prose with an enthralling story of 19th century cross-cultural romance. The story begins in a provincial French town in the middle of the century, where a young Frenchman becomes involved in the developing silk industry. (The tone is perfection: having just read Madame Bovary, it seemed to me that Baricco was able to channel the spirit of the time and place amazingly well). The industry's key problem is the lack of a reliable source of healthy silk worm eggs, so the young man travels to Japan (still cut off from the rest of the world) to find them. In Japan he does find the eggs, but he also meets a Japanese grandee who speaks French, and the grandee's beautiful (and silent) mistress, whose long glances the young man cannot forget -- . The story winds on from there, bringing in the hero's relationship with his wife (who has a beautiful voice) and the impact of history on the links among the characters. A very beautiful novel, and at times a very erotic one.

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