Without Blood - Hardcover

Baricco, Alessandro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841954853 ISBN 13: 9781841954851

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2004

Synopsis

Without Blood starts with a terrible act of violence - a vendetta to kill a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives. She is four. And she survives because of an extraordinary act of mercy. In the second section of the novel Nina is an old woman. She meets again her childhood saviour and the reunion brings about all sorts of reappraisals of their respective lives and what took place on that fateful night over half a century earlier. Highly visual and unforgettably sad, Without Blood is a haunting book about longing, memory and forgiveness. Ann Goldstein's superb translation captures Baricco's effortless prose style and gives people in Britain the opportunity to experience this gem of a novel that has delighted hundreds of thousands of readers across Europe.

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Review:

"Baricco continues to blend the best elements of cinema and poetry. . . . "Without Blood" applies the delicacy of Baricco's style to dark territory: war, human cruelty and revenge." --"San Francisco Chronicle" "Mesmerizing and starkly beautiful. . . . The effect is awesome." --"The Observer" (London) "Powerful. . . . Designed not for consumption, but for meditation. This story hangs around the neck, curls into you." --"Review of Contemporary Fiction" "The lightness of Baricco's prose and his ability to zero in on inexplicable moments of beauty and meaning make "Without Blood" a compelling read." --"Time Out New York"

Book Description:

'Contained in theses few page is a complete portrait of what it means to be human, at our most elemental, and the effect is awesome.' The Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1841954853
• ISBN 13: 9781841954851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144