9780151001941 | Harcourt, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.01 | also contains
Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir
9780151002115 | Harcourt, June 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 |
About this edition: Living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village in medieval Japan, nine-year-old Isaku becomes the head of the family in his father's absence and, with the villagers, makes a living from luring merchant ships onto the rocky shoals, slaughtering their crews, and looting the cargo.
9780156008358 | Mariner Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 |
About this edition: Living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village in medieval Japan, nineyearold Isaku becomes the head of the family in his father's absence and, with the villagers, makes a living from luring merchant ships onto the rocky shoals, slaughtering their crews, and looting the cargo.
9780613223737 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $24.60 |
About this edition: An evocative historical novel with a sting in the tail, Shipwrecks is set in medieval Japan; in a coastal village where a father sells himself into indentured servitude to save his family from starvation.