Ocean Sea

Hardcover, 241 pages

English language

Published Feb. 26, 1999 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-375-40423-8
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OCLC Number:
39539054

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From the author of the international best-seller Silk, come s haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance.

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. Adams may furnish the key to the girl's salvation, but only the fulfillment of his obsessive secret purpose to answer murder with murder - can conclude the journey that has brought him from the ends of the ear. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Allesandro Baricco's new novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea. (front flap)

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Review of 'Océano mar' on 'Goodreads'

Del señor Baricco, me habia leído 3 ensayos: Los bárbaros, The Game y Next. Esta es la primera novela que me leo. Lo primero es que es un libro extraño y que tiene un tono de fábula, de historia sencilla con intenciones más profundas, mezclando géneros. Una trama pero podríamos decir que la forma es otra trama distinta. Un poco como el mar que por un lado es poesía y por otro lado contiene la vida de la humanidad (¿ves?). No he conectado por tener presente la sensación de ganas de impresionar del señor Baricco, que me tenía mal acostumbrado a una franqueza y aguda sencillez de sus ensayos. Como algo artificial y pretencioso. Puedo entender porqué ha gustado tanto en cualquier caso ("me ha llegado al corazón", et al). ¿Habrá que leer Seda? Que el oráculo nos guíe.

Review of 'Ocean Sea' on 'Goodreads'

I read this one for my book club and I have to admit it probably isn't something I'd have picked up on my own. I found it to be an enjoyable read. The writing was beautiful - prose really. The story itself was sometimes difficult to follow, but I think this may have been intentional on the author's part - somehow enhancing the overall mystery. I'm not usually one to read a book more than twice, but this one justifies a second read.

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