Ocean Sea Av Alessandro Baricco

<p>A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father''s last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. <br><br> Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco''s novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.</p>