Ocean Sea - Softcover

In this haunting and compelling novel of literary suspense by the author of SILK, a handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, an inscrutable seductress, a renowned painter and a beautiful young girl, seemingly fatally ill. 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. Part adventure, part philosophical enquiry and part poetic meditation, Baricco's new novel, at once playful and profoundly serious, surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean.

Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of two other novels, CASTELLI DI RABBIA, which won the Prix Medicis and the Campiello prize, and SILK, which has been an international bestseller, translated into twenty-seven languages.OCEAN SEA has been awarded the Viareggio and Palazzo del Bosco prizes in Italy. He has also written works in the field of musicology.