"SILK"
                                                              by:Allesandro Baricco  

Silk is a great novel for me, a romance and dramatic kind of story wherein you can still see the practicality of the real actions the characters did. The very lesson in this story has taught me when to let go of people you love, even if you love her in your fullest. Actually it’s not from the protagonist but from his wife.The story is somehow hard to picture, about a man, Herve searching for silk for his business and by searching he then reached Japan and met a girl there, then he had a relationship with her. For that reason he then always went to Japan saying to his wife it is for business, in short he started lying. But when Japan was experience civil war, he never saw the girl. His wife knew all of it all along that he was having mistress.  For me it was the bravest and greatest thing I’ve ever known in my life. To know that the ones we love the most does not love us back the way it used to be   It is so realistic that the man has another lover because life now is like that, and that made the story practical for me and at the same time eye-opener,  but you have to know that you can answer such problems like these. Tradition and culture of Japan and Europe made it interesting and literature material. And theme, romanticism, borderless love, made the story really touching and heart-warming.