Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura

Shipwrecks

Harvest Book

Akira Yoshimura with Mark Ealey (Translator)

192 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction historical literary reflective sad slow-paced
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Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live on, and so must distill salt to sell to neighboring villages. But this industry serves another, mo...

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