Bøger af Alessandro Baricco

A haunting tale of love and vengeance, from the internationally bestselling author of Silk

A tale of lust and possession in nineteenth-century France and Japan, from the international bestseller

'Contained in theses few page is a complete portrait of what it means to be human, at our most elemental, and the effect is awesome.' The Observer

Baricco reflects on the pandemic: beyond the health figures a mythical creature emerges that expresses fear and changes... Baricco understands the pandemic as something more than a health emergency: as a mythical creature, a collective construction (very real: there is no denial here) with which humans say something urgent and vital to organize their anxieties and beliefs. The virus as an undemocratic entity that strengthens the powerful and destroys the poor. The pandemic as a battle between fear and bravery, tendency for change and longing for the past. A lucid analysis, nothing obvious.

A young woman enters a fantastically strange family in this "e;luminous and alarming lesson on desire"e; by the international-bestselling author (La Stampa, Italy).A young woman is promised to the scion of a noble family. While her betrothed is away traveling, she is sent to the family's villa to make her marriage preparations. There, the woman discovers that her future in-laws fear the coming of night, each and every night, and seem to never sleep. As the days pass, the atmosphere turns increasingly surreal, and the young bride's interactions with the family turn increasingly erotic.In this "e;virtuoso literary performance,"e; Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the normal rules of causation. The Young Bride is an adult fable about fate, otherness, and the author's own act of creation (European Literature Network)."e;Baricco spins it all together into a work of elegance, eroticism and playful make-believe."e; -The Wall Street Journal

'Baricco has written an Iliad for his time, a wonderful, gripping take on a story that has haunted our culture since it was first told.' The Times