With beautiful language and haunting imagery, Baricco paints a world where we are confronted by the fact that our lives and our worlds are what we make them. But. Sigh. The end didn't add up for me, and the seams were showing.

If you're a Baricco fan, if you loved Silk, or if you're up for a bit of surreal, this is a good bet.

Very short condensed but not dense tale of a 19th-century French silk merchant who travels to Japan for silkworms. This is enchanting, riveting, lyrical, wonderful.