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Silk by Alessandro Baricco
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour, a young silk breeder, has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by ...Show more
The Barbarians: An Essay on the Mutation of Culture by Alessandro Baricco
$36.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From one of Italy's most respected literary voices, a manifesto on the state of global culture and how connectivity is changing the way we experience it. For the gatekeepers of traditional high culture, the rise of young ambitious outsiders has indeed seemed like nothing short of a barbarian invasion. I ...Show more
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