EMMAUS

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The secular and the pious. The rich and the poor. Those with “a capacity for destiny” and those who “cannot afford it.” Emmaus is a world of stark contrasts, one in which four young men—all from proud, struggling families, and all lusting after Andre, a hyper- sexual woman—are goaded from adolescence to manhood in a torrent of exploits and crises, sexual awakenings and morbid depressions, naivety and fatalism.

A brilliant portrait of the perils and uncertainties of youth and faith, Emmaus is a remarkable novel from one of the very best writers in Europe.

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The Arts Fuse reviewed Emmaus right here.

“Alessandro Baricco’s new novel is about religion and sin, the sacred and the blasphemous, but perhaps above all about life, about the complicated and painful ways in which we approach it, the prices we pay, the losses and gains that add up to a figure that is always open-ended. It’s an eternal story—not new yet always containing original elements that can render it authentic, possible, verifiable, if we know how to see it.”
—Il Mattino

”Emmaus is a book about how difficult it is to see truly, in all times and in our own time. Thus it is the story of a fiction—that is to say a universe molded over time—that shatters under pressure of the cruelties of truth. But, at the same time, it is also the story of how, amid the ruins, the confusing world of resurrection appears.”
—La Repubblica

“A short, haunting philosophical novel.”
—Shelf Awareness

“The haunting prose is soaked in a poetic sense of doom and brokenness, a hard-edged working-class lyricism reminiscent of Tillie Olson’s dustbowl classic Yonnondio.”
—The Daily Beast

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“Silk has the brilliant colors…and the enchantment of a miniature…Vividly erotic.”
—Newsday

“A riveting, lyrical love story, an accomplished historical fiction, a compact, condensed…epic about human hearts in crisis.”
—Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered