Silk
- 1 Aug 2019
- 9781786896421
- £9.99
- 160 pp
- 129×198mm
- 15 Oct 2009
- 9781847678492
- £7.99
- 160 pp
In a few words
A tale of lust and possession in nineteenth-century France and Japan, from the international bestseller
In a few words
‘Deeply moving – a delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire’ Guardian
Mesmerising and starkly beautiful
A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable . . . A stylistic tour de force, a literary gem of bewitching power
Deeply moving - A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire.
A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable ... A literary gem of bewitching power.
More about
the book
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.
More about
the book
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.
Deeply moving . . . A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire
An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires . . . One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read
Haunting and delicately erotic
Silk is the perfect pick-up book ... A book of startling images and ideas.
An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires ... One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read.
