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Title: A STORY IS LIKE THE WIND..
Review: I believe it is a proverb of the African bushmen, "A story is like the wind, it comes from a far-off quarter, and we feel it."Those words were invented to describe this stirring gem from Baricco.His prose feels much like a light autumn breeze, soft yet wondrously mermerizing. With ballad-like refrains and sublime descriptions of the harmonious way of Japanese life, we are drawn into an evocative portrait of what it means to be human, at our most elemental, and the effect is awesome.The hypnotic curiosity of a distant unrequited love leads the novel to its stark and tempestuos end, which lingers in your mind long after you've turned the last page in bewilderment.I have never read such an effortlessly haunting saga of compassion, obsession, intrigue. Kudos to the translator for retaining Baricco's original Italian delicacy.It takes about 2 hours to journey between the novel's shores, but I bet you'll take the voyage more than once.
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