France, When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, silkworm breeder Herve Joncour has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine, a girl who does not have oriental eyes.
Although they are unable to exchange so much as a word, love blossoms between them. Add another edition? Copy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page.
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Written in English — 91 pages. Seda , Editorial Anagrama S. Not in Library. Libraries near you: WorldCat. Seide Mar 17, , Atlantik Verlag. Soie Oct 09, , Editions Gallimard. Seda Seda , Canongate Books.
Seide: Roman , Dt. Seide: Roman , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. Silk , Vintage Books. Silk August 28, , Vintage. Paperback in English - Reissue edition. Silk , W F Howes. Seda July , Anagrama. Unlock the more straightforward side of Silk with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! Following an epidemic which infects silkworm eggs across the.
In the s, when Japan is still closed to foreigners, Herve Joncour, a young French merchant, makes a series of clandestine journeys across Siberia to Japan, at first to purchase silkworm eggs, and later to pursue an affair with a Japanese nobleman's concubine. A Picturehouse Entertainment film, written by. The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative.
Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize.
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