Shipwrecks
San Diego : Harcourt, 2000, ©1996.
Format: Book
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Description: 180 pages ; 21 cm
Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the Japan Sea coast. To save the family from starvation, his father has sold himself into indentured servitude, leaving Isaku and his strong-willed mother to care for three younger children. Forced to grow up well before his time, Isaku is faced with a number of mysteries, not least among them his own nascent sexuality and the legend of O-fune-sama - the merchant ships that wreck offshore from time to time, providing the village with unexpected bounty: rice, wine, and rich, unheard-of delicacies.
Subjects:
Yoshimura, Akira, 1927-2006 -- Translations into English.
Boys -- Japan -- Fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Japan -- Fiction.
Yoshimura, Akira, 1927-2006 -- Translations into English.
Boys -- Japan -- Fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Japan -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0156008351
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Yoshimura | Sandhills Indoors | Fiction | In |
"A Harvest book."
This English translation originally published: 1996.
This English translation originally published: 1996.