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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Harcourt Brace And Co
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1982
Edition: First Edition

Description: 180 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. Isaka Is A Nine Year Old Boy Living In A Remote Poor Fishing Village On The Japan Coast And Is Left To Look After His Family After His Father Has Sold Himself Into Indentured Servitude.

Publishers Description: 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, more sinister purpose: the fires of the salt cauldrons lure passing ships toward the shore and onto rocky shoals. When a ship runs aground, the villagers slaughter the crew and loot the cargo for rice, wine, and rich delicacies. One day a ship founders on the rocks. But Isaku learns that its cargo is far deadlier than could ever be imagined. Shipwrecks, the first novel by the great Japanese writer Yoshimura to be translated into English, is a stunningly powerful, Gothic tale of fate and retribution.

ISBN: 9780151002115

(143660)

180 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. Isaka Is A Nine Year Old Boy Living In A Remote Poor Fishing Village On The Japan Coast And Is Left To Look After His Family After His Father Has Sold Himself Into Indentured Servitude.

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