Ocean Sea
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In Alessandro Baricco's celebrated debut, it was silk that exerted a fatal attraction. This time it's the ocean, whose watery charms cause an entire cast of characters to convene at the isolated Almayer Inn. The guests include a seductress, an eccentric professor, and a painter with a pronounced penchant for metaphysics. They're soon joined by the beautiful young daughter of a local aristocrat, who's been stricken with a mysterious illness. In a sense, however, all these characters are suffering from maladies--psychological, existential, erotic--which makes the Almayer Inn a kind of Magic Mountain with beachfro
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 27 June 2000
ISBN-10 : 0375703950 | ISBN-13: 9780375703959
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Release date: 27 June 2000
ISBN-10 : 0375703950 | ISBN-13: 9780375703959
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