Storm Rider by Yoshimura, Akira
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- Condition
- Like New
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780151006670
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151006679
ISBN-13
9780151006670
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5950659
Product Key Features
Book Title
Storm Rider
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Historical, Action & Adventure
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-017321
Reviews
PRAISE FOR SHIPWRECKS Haunting and austerely beautiful . . .Makes you wonder why it took so long for an American publisher to discover him., One of Japan's most distinguished novelists appears in English for the fourth time, in a tale of nineteenth-century transpacific life. A Japanese boy is saved at sea by an American ship and taken to San Francisco, which, under the shogun's rule, means that he cannot return to Japan. He tries, sailing with Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan and giving readers a Japanese perspective on that historic mission. But he finds no welcome and must return to an America on the verge of civil war, where he is adopted by a wealthy American. In time the overthrow of the shogunate allows him to return to Japan to play a part in the Meiji Restoration, which most Americans know only from samurai flicks. They deserve the closer encounter Yoshimura's book provides, despite its rather slow pacing and slightly stiff prose, which may be attributable to the translation. As much a work of scholarship as of fiction, it may find its most dedicated readers in the audience for serious historical fiction. Roland Green Copyright Β© American Library Association. All rights reserved Β , Set in the mid''βΒ¬"19th century, this fourth of Yoshimura's novels to be translated into English tells the astonishing story of a 13-year-old Japanese boy who becomes a castaway, is rescued by an American ship and brought to San Francisco, and finally returns years later to his native land. Unfortunately, while the circumstances the narrative covers''βΒ¬"storms at sea, unspeakable privations, violent rebellions on several continents, amazing coincidences and ironic reversals''βΒ¬"are dramatic and surprising, the novel itself is written (or perhaps translated) in dry circumstantial detail, wooden in affect. Born in a small village on an island on the Inland Sea, Hikotaro, aka Hikozo and Joseph Hiko, traverses more than oceans in a lifelong voyage. He faces the cultural dislocations of an alien in American society and the violent enmity of his countrymen when he returns to Japan as a Westernized employee of the U.S. consulate. His life spans the Taiping Rebellion in China, the U.S. Civil War and the turbulent period before the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Along the way he meets three U.S. Presidents''βΒ¬"Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln''βΒ¬"travels with Commodore Perry's fleet, is promised a job by Secretary of State William Seward and crosses paths with many other notable people. After returning to his homeland, he founds Japan's first newspaper and uses his skill in English to succeed in several businesses. But beneath his achievements lies the sadness of a man without a country. Readers can't fail to find the novel's historical details fascinating, but its protagonist and his shipmates, whose exhaustively detailed experiences are also interpolated into the narrative, lack emotional depth, and Yoshimura's matter-of-fact prose fails to sustain dramatic tension. Copyright Β© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved., PRAISE FOR SHIPWRECKS "Haunting and austerely beautiful . . .Makes you wonder why it took so long for an American publisher to discover him."-THE NEW YORK TIMES
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
895.6/35
Synopsis
Hikotaro is thirteen years old and an orphan, left to a life of adventure at sea. When the merchant vessel he sails on is caught in a violent storm on the Pacific, an American ship comes to the rescue and takes the young boy to San Francisco. With trepidation and hope, the boy-now dubbed Hikozo- accepts his new country. Hikozo soon dreams of returning to his village, but a longen forced Shogunate policy forbids entry to Japanese who have been abroad. Still, he tries, sailing to Hong Kong aboard a ship commanded by the legendary Commodore Matthew Perry, only to be refused and returned to California. There, a wealthy American adopts Hikozo and introduces him to a world of influence and power. Some ten years later, Hikozo finally returns to a Japan stirred into violence by the opening of the country. But America is in the midst of its bloody Civil War, and there is no place he can call home. Yoshimura has created a great sea adventure and historical record of two nineteenth-century countries in the making.
LC Classification Number
PL865.O72A7613 2004
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