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Without Blood (Paperback)

de Alessandro Baricco (Author)
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“Baricco continues to blend the best elements of cinema and poetry. . . . Without Blood applies the delicacy of Baricco's style to dark territory: war, human cruelty and revenge.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Mesmerizing and starkly beautiful. . . . The effect is awesome.”
—The Observer (London)

“Powerful. . . . Designed not for consumption, but for meditation. This story hangs around the neck, curls into you.”
—Review of Contemporary Fiction

“The lightness of Baricco's prose and his ability to zero in on inexplicable moments of beauty and meaning make Without Blood a compelling read.”
—Time Out New York

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An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war – and one girl's quest for revenge and healing, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Silk.

When – in an unnamed place and time – Manuel Roca's enemies hunt him down to kill him, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child, hidden in a hole beneath his farmhouse floor. After this carnage Tito, one of the murderers, discovers Nina's trapdoor. Enthralled by the sight of Nina's perfect innocence, he keeps quiet. By the time she has grown up, Nina's innocence will have bloomed into something else altogether, and one by one the wartime hunters will become the peacetime hunted. But not until a striking old woman calls upon a familiar old man selling newspapers in town can we know what Nina will ultimately make of her brutal legacy.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Honestly, as a translation, it simply does not work., Jui 14 2009
Par Schmadrian - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Without Blood (Hardcover)
Maybe it (and his other works) works in the original Italian. But the language is so utterly stilted, the approach to storytelling so manufactured, so 'precious' in its final form...

...that I couldn't help but think of how it might end up as a 'Second City' or 'Fast Show' sketch. The possibility for parody is immense.

This makes me sad, of course, because his topics are so tender, so delicately wrought. However...

...it also makes me question how reviewers regard his work, lauding him endlessly, lavishly...and how this reminds me of art critics blathering about 'modern art', a streak of red on a canvas, five small dots on white, simplicity-gone-mad, all celebrated as 'masterpieces'.

Seeing as the Inner Ogre Reviewer is holding sway for this time 'round, I'll issue this challenge: I'd love to know if the author could (would?) write a 'standard' novel/novella. Methinks not.

As I've said previously: 'If you believe there's a direct relationship between published or produced works and Quality...or further, one between works that have not been published or produced, and a lack of Quality...you're naïve.'

Even taking into consideration personal taste and the myriad expressions of subjectivity in reviewing...come on.

Seriously; come on.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Engaging story, Juil 17 2004
Par KH1 (Middle America) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Without Blood (Hardcover)
Although I did not enjoy Baricco's lastest work as much as his best-seller "Silk", I found that the three qualities that impressed me the most with "Silk" - form, purity of style and language, and imagery - were employed with equal skill in "Without Blood."
Told in two chapters, each approximately 45 pages in length, "Without Blood" begins as the story of a young girl who witnesses the assassination of her father and young brother. The assassins, a man named Salinas, his henchman, known only as "El Gurre", and a young man of twenty named Tito, kill her father and brother, and then realizing that she mus tbe hidden somewhere in the house, burn it to the ground.
In the second half of the novel, an old woman seeks out a final revenge.
Like his work "Silk", "Without Blood" has a simple story. It is not the plot, but the immensely deep and tragic characters that make the novella great. The only problem that I had with the novella is during hte dialogue, Baricco inserts pauses that made it very hard to determine who was speaking, and it is only for this reason that I did not give it five stars.
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