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by Alessandro Baricco (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; New edition edition (10 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841955744
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841955742
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 209,814 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Contained in theses few page is a complete portrait of what it means to be human, at our most elemental, and the effect is awesome." The Observer; "It's a brief book but beautifully told. Anne Goldstein's translation preserves the subtle clarity of the original." The Times; "This is a fable for adults with its twin themes of revenge and redemption and fierce, haunting imagery. Baricco is the new Hans Christian Andersen." Daily Mail; "This book is a revelation, tightly executed, exhilarating and beautiful." Big Issue

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After her father and brother are brutally murdered, 4 year old Nina is left for dead in the family house. Highly visual and unforgettably sad, Without Blood is a haunting book about damage, longing, memory and forgiveness. Ann Goldstein's superb translation captures Baricco's effortless prose style and gives people in Britain the opportunity to experience this gem of a novel that has already delighted hundreds of thousands of readers across Europe.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Quiet, understated read, 15 April 2006
By kimbofo (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I read this anorexic-looking book cover to cover in less than an hour and now, forced to try and shape my thoughts about it into some semblance of a review, I feel myself itching to read it again.

The story is essentially a revenge tale, although it is tempered by other human emotions, like love and loss, memory and forgiveness, and how we are all shaped by the events of our past.

It opens with a young four-year-old girl, Nina, being forced to hide in a hole under the floorboards of a country farmhouse in Italy. Here she is safe from the murderous men who brutally kill her father and her brother.

During the killing spree one of the attackers finds Nina's hiding spot but leaves her alone, a moment which we later find out has haunted him his whole life.

Later, when the story leaps ahead, we meet Nina as an elegant woman in her fifties. She has tracked down her 'saviour' and invited him for a drink. He knows that the two other attackers with him on that fateful day have died under mysterious circumstances and he believes that this woman - the girl from the farmhouse - is going to extract her final revenge. But he goes for the drink regardless...

Without Blood is a quiet, understated read. The prose is restrained, economic, minimal. Even the dialogue between characters is clipped and sparse. There is no extraneous detail of any kind, so there is nothing to get in the way of the story. Stripped down to the bare minimum, Baricco is able to demonstrate very clearly how the legacy of that one brutal day of violence has shaped the lives of the two main characters.

Ultimately, this novella may be an incredibly short read, but it is a deeply affecting one that packs a powerful punch. As someone who very rarely re-reads books, I'll be delving back into this one again soon to experience its subtle beauty all over again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite, 9 Jun 2004
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A jewel of a story, Superbly judged prose -- superbly translated . Less than ninety pages of exquisite story-telling that you could go back to again and again and find something different to reflect on each time. A tiny masterpiece
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