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Akira Yoshimura (吉村 昭, Yoshimura Akira, May 1, 1927 – July 31, 2006) was an award-winning Japanese writer. Internationally he is best known for his novels Shipwrecks and On Parole.
Jul 26, 2006 · Prize winning Japanese writer. Akira Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which in particular On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages.
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On Parole (仮釈放, Kari-Shakuhō) is a 1988 novel by Japanese author Akira Yoshimura. The book tells the story of Shiro Kikutani, a man who is serving an indefinite prison sentence for the murder of his unfaithful wife.
Jan 1, 2001 · Shipwrecks is both an act of time-travel and of gone-native anthropology. It transports us back some centuries to a remote corner of a shuttered-of country where we see the world and its struggles not through Akira Yoshimura's eyes, but through Isaku's.
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Akira Yoshimura has 68 books on Goodreads with 15331 ratings. Akira Yoshimura’s most popular book is Shipwrecks.
Nov 18, 2010 · Shipwrecks. In a medieval Japanese village starving fishermen use fires to lure passing merchant ships toward their shore and onto rocky shoals. When a ship runs aground, they slaughter the crew and loot the cargo. One day a ship founders, but instead of booty the cargo turns out to be smallpox.
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Akira Yoshimura. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 - Fiction - 192 pages. Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of...
