Silk

Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan. He strikes a business deal with a local baron there and is utterly bewitched by the man's concubine, a girl who does not have oriental eyes. An unlikely love blossoms between them, a love that is only strengthened over time.

Subtle, tender and surprising, Silk is an entrancing tale of erotic possession and how the heart charts its own course. Fall in love once again with this modern masterpiece in a beautiful new translation by Ann Goldstein.

Praise for Silk:

'Deeply moving...A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire.'

Guardian

'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

'A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable...A literary gem of bewitching power.'

Sunday Times

'Silk is the perfect pick-up book...A book of startling images and ideas.'

Observer