A bold re-imagining of our civilization s greatest tale of war, from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Silk. In An Iliad, Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters, in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of Hector, we see through human eyes and feel with human hearts the unforgettable events first recounted almost three thousand years ago. Imbuing the stuff of legend with a startling new relevancy and humanity, Baricco gives us TheIliad as we...
A bold re-imagining of our civilization s greatest tale of war, from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Silk. In An Iliad, Ales...
"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...
"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review With Silk, his ...
Das erste Kinderbuch von Bestseller-Autor Alessandro Baricco.
Komplexe Sachverhalte werden verständlich erklärt und auf ebenso einprägsame wie unterhaltsam illustriert, von der Entstehung des Internets bis zur Künstlichen Intelligenz.
Das erste Kinderbuch von Bestseller-Autor Alessandro Baricco.
Komplexe Sachverhalte werden verständlich erklärt und auf ebenso einprägsa...