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Ocean sea alessandro baricco, author, alastair mcewen, translator, alasdair mcewen, translator alfred a. At the almayer inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. In ocean sea, alessandro baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human maladypsychological, existential, eroticand the sea as a means of deliverance. New books celebrate italian ocean liners gare maritime. Oceano mare is a 1993 novel by the italian writer alessandro baricco. Star of the sea is a historical novel by the irish writer joseph oconnor published in 2004.
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