Emmaus

By Alessandro Baricco

Book Overview

The secular and the pious. The rich and the poor. Those with "a capacity for destiny" and those who "cannot afford it." Emmaus is a world of stark contrasts, one in which four young men--all from proud, struggling families, and all lusting after Andre, a hyper- sexual woman--are goaded from adolescence to manhood in a torrent of exploits and crises, sexual awakenings and morbid depressions, naivety and fatalism.
A brilliant portrait of the perils and uncertainties of youth and faith, Emmaus is a remarkable novel from one of the very best writers in Europe.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936365596
• ISBN13: 9781936365593
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.0"