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When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour leaves his small town and travels to Japan to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. There he falls in love with another man's concubine, and during subsequent visits their secret and silent affair develops.
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‘A haunting and delicately erotic novella’ -- Mail on Sunday
‘A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable... A literary gem of bewitching power’ -- Sunday Times
‘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
‘Silk is the perfect pick-up book...A book of startling images and ideas’ -- Observer
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‘A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable... A literary gem of bewitching power’ -- Sunday Times
‘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
‘Silk is the perfect pick-up book...A book of startling images and ideas’ -- Observer
'Deeply moving-A delicately crafted love story and an anatomy of desire' Guardian
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1860463665
- ISBN 13 9781860463662
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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