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

At the turn of the 20th Century, the great cruise liner Virginia shuttles back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, transporting passengers from old Europe to the New World. When an abandoned baby is found on board the sailors christen Novecento - 1900. The child is destined to a strange fate. Novecento will never leave the ship as long as he lives, yet he becomes the greatest jazz musician the world would never know. He only knows his music, which has a magical effect on everyone who hears. For six years before World War II, Tim Tooney played trumpet with him and Novecento gave him his story...Adapted for film in The Legend of 1900, this stage adaptation presented as a monologue, is a beautiful piece of theatre.

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

'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