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In the 1860s, when Japan is still closed to foreigners, Herve+a7 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. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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‘A haunting and delicately erotic novella’ -- Mail on Sunday
‘A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable... A literary gem of bewitching power’ -- Sunday Times
‘An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires...One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read’ -- Daily Telegraph
‘Silk is the perfect pick-up book...A book of startling images and ideas’ -- Observer
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‘A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable... A literary gem of bewitching power’ -- Sunday Times
‘An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires...One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read’ -- Daily Telegraph
‘Silk is the perfect pick-up book...A book of startling images and ideas’ -- Observer
'Deeply moving-A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire' Guardian
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0375703829
- ISBN 13 9780375703829
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages91
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