'CITY is an important title for me, because it expresses what this book has always been in my head. A city. No particular city. An impression of a city rather. Its skeleton. I thought of the stories I had in mind as if they were neighbourhoods. And I imagined characters as if they were streets...The characters - the streets - are many. There is a barber who on Thursdays cuts hair for no charge, there is a giant, and a mute. There is a boy called Gould, and a girl called Shatzy Shell. There are professors, people who play football, a black kid who plays basketball and never fails to score, and there's also a general.' Alessandro Baricco

City

Literature & Fiction

alessandro-baricco

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Lands of glass

Penguin Uk

Page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Ocean Sea

Hamish Hamilton

The main characters, who are designed to resemble fairy-tale figures, can be found in this novel which contains a great variety of characters and different perceptions: Mr. Rile, who suddenly leaves and comes back even more unexpectedly; Mrs. Rile, whose mouth gave God the "weird idea of sin", according to local rumours; Pekish, inventor and operator of a strange device; Pechd, an orphan who experienced life through numbered notes and is waiting to grow up so that his jacket fits him; Hector Oro, an architect who claimed that he could ameliorate the world by constructing buildings made of glass; Mormy, the illegitimate child of Mr. Rile, with the dark complexion; Aberg, a widow who had never been married and Bonetti an engineer, a character that combines rationality and irrationality in a unique way.

Lands of Glass

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.

Alastair McEwen

Literary

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Seta

European Schoolbooks Limited

The Young Bride: A Novel

Europa Editions

Without Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the attackers. Nina is just four years old. Decades later Nina hunts down the last of her family's murderers, the man who was her saviour. Their reunion brings about a profound reappraisal of their lives and what took place on that fateful night over half a century earlier. Highly visual and unforgettably sad, Without Blood is a haunting book about damage, longing, memory and forgiveness. Ann Goldstein's superb translation captures Baricco's effortless prose style and gives readers in Britain the opportunity to experience this gem of a novel that has already delighted hundreds of thousands across Europe.

Without Blood

CANONGATE BOOKS *

Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.

Ocean Sea (Canons)

Canongate Books Ltd.

Text Publishing

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