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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
Paola, have you read any other books by this author that you would recommend? Thanks!
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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.