Ocean Sea
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco, published by Knopf on February 2, 1999, is a novel that weaves together the lives of several characters at a remote seaside inn. This edition, comprising 241 pages, presents a haunting tale of love and vengeance, where a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, and an inscrutable seductress intersect with a young girl brought to the sea by her desperate father. The arrival of a mysterious sailor named Adams sets the stage for a revelation of destinies, as the narrative explores themes of obsession and the interplay between beauty and cruelty.
Readers will find an intricate web of relationships and secrets that unfold against the backdrop of the ocean. The story delves into the characters’ motivations and the consequences of their actions, culminating in a suspenseful exploration of salvation and retribution. With elements of historical fiction and a setting in France, Ocean Sea invites readers to reflect on the complexities of human connections and the depths of the human experience.
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From the author of the international bestseller Silk (“Vividly erotic” — Los Angeles Times; “A heartbreaking love story . . . a literary gem of bewitching power” — The Sunday Times [London]), comes a haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance.
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress. And a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father’s last hope. 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. Adams may furnish the key to the girl’s salvation, but only the fulfillment of his obsessive secret purpose — to answer murder with murder — can conclude the journey that has brought him from the ends of the earth. At once playful and profoundly serious, Alessandro Baricco’s new novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.
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