From the auuthor of the international bestseller, Silk. . . Without Blood starts with a terrible act of violence - a vendetta to kill a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives. She is four. And she survives thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy.
Decades later Nina hunts down the last of her family's murderers - her own saviour. Their reunion brings about all sorts of reappraisals of their respective lives and what took place on that fateful night over half a century earlier.
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.