In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they don't even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But the moment he does, Joncour is enslaved.
Subtle, tender and surprising, Silk is an evocative tale of erotic possession.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781786896421
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 117 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 10 mm
Edition: Main - Canons
Mesmerising and starkly beautiful - Observer
A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable . . . A stylistic tour de force, a literary gem of bewitching power - Sunday Times
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
Haunting and delicately erotic - Mail on Sunday
There's no review that I think can do this book justice. It's an all incompassing love story that delves so deeply into the human spirit and the things we'll do for those we love, like no other book has... More
The book reflects on the concepts of love and lust and how they entwine; such an easy and beautiful read
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