Ocean Sea
- 7 Nov 2019
- 9781786896438
- £9.99
- 256 pp
- 129×198mm
- 7 Mar 2013
- 9781782111610
- £7.99
- 256 pp
In a few words
A haunting tale of love and vengeance, from the internationally bestselling author of Silk
In a few words
An acclaimed and haunting tale of love and vengeance – from the author of the bestselling Silk
Highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical
Compelling, profound and sharply funny
Stephanie Merritt
ObserverBaricco is an exemplary storyteller . . . [he] shows a Bertolucci-like, chair-hopping, gesticulating sense of sheer joy, that turns this tragic tale into a bittersweet tragi-comedy.
Compelling, profound and sharply funny
Stephanie Merritt
ObserverMore about
the book
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress – and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father’s last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear.
Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco’s novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.
More about
the book
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress – and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father’s last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear.
Adams may furnish the key to the girl’s salvation, but only the fulfilment of his obsessive secret purpose – to answer murder with murder – can conclude the journey that has brought him from the ends of the earth. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco’s novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.
Baricco has produced a beguilingly unusual beach book
Baricco has produced a work of miraculously spun sugar, at which many people will gasp in admiration
This is a novel driven by the pleasure of narrative. Unburdened by a single perspective, the writing is ethereal
Baricco is an exemplary storyteller . . . [he] shows a Bertolucci-like, chair-hopping, gesticulating sense of sheer joy, that turns this tragic tale into a bittersweet tragi-comedy
Highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical
Baricco has produced a work of miraculously spun sugar, at which many people will gasp in admiration.
This is a novel driven by the pleasure of narrative. Unburdened by a single perspective, the writing is ethereal.
Baricco has produced a beguilingly unusual beach book.
