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Silk

Silk

by Alessandro Baricco

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 132 PAGES

In this tale of love and adventure, an international bestseller, a young French merchant journeys across Siberia to Japan in the 1860s in search of silkworm eggs, falling in love with a forbidden woman.  (JPN267, $14.00)

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