With one of the most beautiful love letters ever written ...

The delightful story of a nineteenth century merchant sériculteur told by an Italian Alessandro Baricco unclassifiable.
A little gem of a few pages, almost new.
Nearly actually poem.
Or even a song since the trip of the Ardèche trader in Japan is drawn in only a few lines (half page) that repeat, such a refrain throughout the years, over the back and forth of Japan and France Japan in France.
So it's not the journey that matters, but both ends of the journey, the two hidden faces of the character ... the two women hidden character, until the surprising ending, real icing on this delicious cake that eaten in too little time.
Baricco writes with small short sentences that are linked with happiness and poetry. But the key is probably what is not said.
Between sentences and between words.
The story is beautiful and the writing is beautiful knowing, nevertheless, remain very uncluttered, without superfluous stylistic effects. We love all the more.