Alessandro Baricco. Castles of Wrath (Novel)

Alessandro Baricco's first novel is also his most important, according to numerous critics. Before us lies a world of madcap inventors, passionate lovers, high-speed locomotives, and glass palaces. Semi-Kafkaesque visions converging at a single point, only to continue in a geometrically flawless straight line: Baricco unerringly chose the course that has made him one of the leading European authors of our time.