Lands of Glass
A polyphonic novel in which trains, the Crystal Palace, and scattered lives echo one another. Its lyrical prose turns fragments into a modern urban fable.
Work Information
Fragments of story link together the light and shadow of the modern city.
An Italian novel that uses recurring images of the Crystal Palace and the railway to sketch the outlines of modern desire and the city.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Published
- 2002-08-01
- Pages
- 240 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.4 x 2.5 x 22.7 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780241141748
- ISBN-10
- 0241141745
- Price
- 2684 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
From one of Italy's most brilliant and most inventive writers comes the story of two visionaries of the mid-nineteenth century. Mr Rail is a small-town entrepreneur and glass-maker, and Hector Horeau is the Parisian architect who commissions him to make the glass for the Crystal Palace. They are joined by the extravagant inventor, Pekisch, and Elisabeth, a steam locomotive racing along on a railway to nowhere. Theirs is a Kafkaesque tale of angry visions, confused emotions and fantastic ambitions.
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958 where he still lives today. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed novels SILK, OCEAN SEA and CITY.
Reviews
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He is the Faulkner of our time. This book, I believe, is his first? Not his most masterful, but still stunning. And for folks who like to watch the evolution of a writer, you can see him chiseling out his craft here, then refining it in Silk.
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Fast delivery and book as described. Love it, just what I wanted at an affordable price!
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La storia é bellissima purtroppo il libro é arrivato rovinato.