Lord knows I
love short chapters. Therefore I knew this book would please me. And lo, so it
did.
Like it’s
chapters, this book is very slim. Yet somehow, through the brilliant, subtle writing,
this novel has an epic quality of huge scope as the main character, a French
silkworm merchant, travels between France and Japan. It is on a trip to Japan
that our silkworm merchant sees and falls in love with a woman he sees there. Infatuation
ensues and what comes next challenges ideas of loyalty, desire, love and
betrayal. Read it. End of story. Read it.
Blurb please and
thank you:
“This sensual and hypnotic novel tells a
story of adventure and obsession. In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve
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
do not 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.”
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