Thread: Literary Silk by Alessandro Baricco
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Old 04-15-2015, 04:13 PM   #16
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Paola, have you read any other books by this author that you would recommend? Thanks!
nothing at all, shame on me! I guess this is the effect of being an expat that has lost touch with the motherland. But I can tell you that the book that made Baricco famous is Novecento, even shorter than Silk. This is the book I would have proposed had it not been for the fact that, surprisingly, it has no English translation.
Land of glass (Castelli di rabbia, literally "rage castles'", but which in Italian plays on "sand castles/castelli di sabbia") is the first proper novel that he wrote, but again I think it can get some people.
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