The Samurai of the Red Carnation - Couverture souple

Thériault, Denis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782279695 ISBN 13 : 9781782279693

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2025

Synopsis

'A charming, magical journey through medieval Japan' Sean Lusk

An irresistibly romantic historical adventure by the author of the international bestseller The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

Matsuo is expected to become a samurai, like his father before him. But as he is training in the art of war, he realises he was destined for a different art altogether. Turning his back on his future as a warrior of the sword, he decides to do battle with words instead, as a poet.

Matsuo's quest to find his true self, and his true love, takes him through bloody battlefields and burning cities. But his ultimate test will be the uta awase - a tournament where Japan's greatest poets engage in fierce verbal combat for the honour of victory, and where Matsuo will find himself fighting for his life.

PRAISE FOR THE SAMURAI OF THE RED CARNATION

'A likeable mixture of picaresque adventure and poetry'Sunday Times

'A combination of swoony romance, swashbuckling adventure and traditional tanka verse' Daily Mail

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Denis Thériault is an award-winning author, playwright and screenwriter living in Quebec. He has long been fascinated by Japan, and Japanese poetry in particular. Haikus were central to his The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman, which was an international bestseller, translated into sixteen languages across the world, won the Japan-Canada Book Prize and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club in the UK. The Samurai of the Red Carnation once again revolves around traditional Japanese verse, and is set during the medieval golden age of poetry in Japan.

Louise Rogers Lalaurie is a writer and translator from French, whose translations include Louise Mey's The Second Woman, Frédéric Dard's The King of Fools and The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabuçon. Her work has been shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature and the Crime Writers Association International Dagger.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782279695
• ISBN 13: 9781782279693
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible