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Title	:	Shipwrecks
Author	:	Akira Yoshimura
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 180 pages
Published	:	2000 by Harcourt (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Cultural. Japan. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Asia

Shipwrecks

Akira Yoshimura

Paperback | Pages: 180 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 1885 Users | 257 Reviews

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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, 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.

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Original Title:	破船 [Hasen]
ISBN:	0156008351 (ISBN13: 9780156008358)
Edition Language:	English

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Mishima's "The Sound of Waves" and Oe's "Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids", but with a love affair that goes no further than an exchange of gifts. I loved this perhaps the most. No one would ever know how Isaku felt about Tami. And she would be the love of his life. Isn't that adorable? Why doesn't anyone do that anymore? Nowadays, he'd probaby have a #photo of his "Tami" #tattoo on @Twitter I also loved that everyone in this book is like me; the kind of person who wakes up thinking "Yay! Friday!"

What a great book! The book itself is very small, but by the time you get to the end you realize that there was a lot to this story. For example, in what is a story set in medieval Japan, you get the following topics that are (imho) apropos in the modern world: how human beings use religion as a tool to cover up their own self interest, and how sometimes evil deeds are performed in the name of self preservation and the mob is drawn into the performance of these deeds without any thought about

Kinzo had been laid up at home since summer. One day he had lost his footing and slammed his back against a rock while out spearing octopus on the reef. Unable to work, he became a burden on his family. In a village flirting with starvation, an invalid would be written off as dead. Shipwrecks is not a story for the faint of heart. It is a tale of strife and pain, of lives spent in backbreaking work for little to no return, of pragmatic decisions that to an outsider may look like crimes against

Have you ever taken a quick visit to some remote village in a Third World country? One that does not have electricity or running water, and you think to yourself, 'How do they live like this?'You haven't?Neither do I, but that's how I imagine my first encounter with another civilization that isn't accustomed to my custom.Still, Akira Yoshimura takes us to a village such as this one, and this visit was not at all a quick tour. Akira manages to bring the reader into the routine of life in the

I have not reviewed Akira Yoshimura's Shipwrecks. It felt like I had. Nope, the goodreads page is insisting that I have not. It's blank. What would I have said? (This isn't feelings mabelline. I'm born with the word stutterings. Swear it.) I have conversations in my head. Well, I used to all of the time. I've grown more inward inward and less imagined hopeful outward so the mental conversations aren't me making up whole dialogues of what I wished would be said as much as me talking to me. (If

Started to read this one in Polish but the translation was so awkward that I had to switch to English (quite surprising as it came from the same translator, who has been bringing Murakami to the Polish readers for the past 20 odd years). Read some chapters in original Japanese as well. Its a bleak story and the narration is not making it easier to absorb (which probably was the whole point). I loved the setting and the characters. Some parts of the descriptions were so well done, that they gave

Not your typical bloated historical fiction. I want to rant about how wonderful this was, and tell you in detail about all the twists, turns and revelations, but that would ruin it for you. It's a short book. The story pivots around a small impoverished fishing village in medieval Japan, where life is ruled by nature and guided by rather dubious moral codes. Frequently on the verge of death, and isolated from the general populace, villagers cling to sea worship and their ancestors' rules of