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With ocean sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to italo calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. He has won the prix medicis etranger in france and the selezione campiello, viareggio and palazzo al bosco prizes in italy. Dave berry novecento, by alessandro baricco home the lights slowly brightened to show a ships hold in halfshadow, empty apart from scattered debris and a single figure sitting on one side of the stage. Dos novelas varias veces premiadas castelli di rabbia y oceano marele. Ocean sea unfolds in its poetically elliptical way. At once playful and profoundly serious, alessandro baricco s new novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea. In ocean sea, alessandro baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human maladypsychological, existential, eroticand the sea as a means of deliverance. His latest novel, questa storia, was recently published to great acclaim in italy.
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