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Ocean Sea

Name: Ocean Sea
Brand: Vintage
SKU: 9780375703959-PRUSDTR-US
Price: 108.0 HKD
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Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

256 pages • 5.2 x 7.99 x 0.54 in

Approx. weight: 0.44 lb

Publication date: 27 Jun,2000

Barcode: 9780375703959 • Vintage

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Fiction: general and literary
Metaphysical / philosophical fiction
Magical realism

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By: Alessandro Baricco

"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review

With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature.

In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.