a multi-tongue-book: Alessandro Baricco is Italian. the book starts in France. it is about a man who repeatedly travels to Japan. the original title of the book is "Seta". which means: "Silk" - or "Seide" in German. one of the keys in the story is a letter, written in Japanese, which the main character can't read.
this book also gave an idea for one of my new year resolutions: to read around the world, with books from authors of different nations. so this is: Italy.
Italy#1: and now i just looked for an italian online bookshop - and it turns out, this bookshop splits novels in 2 categories "narrativa italiana" (italian novels) and "narrativa straniera" (foreign novels). haven't seen such a sorting before. maybe a way to give the national authors a bit more grounding?
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