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  Shipwrecks (Paperback) By (author) Akira Yoshimura, Translated by Mark Ealey

  

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  Short Description for ShipwrecksThis story is set in Medieval Japan, and narrated by Isaku, a boy living in a remote fishing village. The villagers don't catch enough fish, so distill fresh water from sea water to sell. More sinisterly the salt fires are used to lure ships aground, but then one sinks with a deadly cargo.
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  • Publisher: Canongate International
  • Published: 10 January 2002
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Adventure | Historical Adventure | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781841952215 ISBN 10: 1841952214
  • Sales rank: 283,202

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Full description for Shipwrecks

• An evocative historical novel with a sting in the tail, Shipwrecks is set in medieval Japan; in a coastal village where a father sells himself into indentured servitude to save his family from starvation. He leaves the responsibility for the family's continuing survival with his nine year old son Isaku. Forced to grow up well before his time, Isaku must learn quickly to trap saury fish and to distil salt; and is faced with a number of mysteries, not least his own nascent sexuality and the legend of O-fune-sama - of ships wrecked offshore providing the village with unexpected bounty. As the end of his father's bondage approaches, and another ship founders on the rocks, Isaku and the villagers rejoice. But the cargo is not at all the manna of their hopes. At first mystifying, then terrifying, this cargo is about to change their lives forever.