The Young Bride
ABOUT
THE BOOK
From international bestselling author, Alessandro Baricco, comes a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family.
The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of a noble family. She is to make her preparations for marriage at the family’s villa, where the inhabitants never seem to sleep. The atmosphere turns surreal as the days pass and her presence on the family estate begins to make itself felt on her future in-laws.
In this erotically charged and magical novel, Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the rules of causation as he tells a story, an adult fable, about fate and the difficult job of confronting the Other and creating an Us.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
The Young Bride is a surreal, magical fable in a beautiful, poetic style. A young bride arrives in a majestic villa in the Italian countryside. While she awaits the arrival of her future husband, she is initiated in the peculiar rituals of their rich family members. Baricco has written a mysterious, dreamy and sensual novel with a bizarre plot. A literary feast!