Ocean Sea

Exotic...erotic... <strong>Ocean Sea</strong> is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical.The New York Times Book Review With Silk his first novel to appear i... » 

Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical.The New York Times Book Review With Silk his first novel to appear inEnglish Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magicalstoryteller. With Ocean Sea he has been acclaimed as the successor to ItaloCalvino and a major voice in modern literature. In Ocean Sea AlessandroBaricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human maladypsychologicalexistential eroticand the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inna remote shoreline hotel an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water topaint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he hasyet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall inlove. And a sixteenyearold girl seeks a cure from a mysterious conditionwhich science has failed to remedy. When these people meet their fates beginto interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner witha thirst for vengeance and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desirebattle for the upper hand. Playful provocative and ultimately profound OceanSea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom. «