Wakou - LaHaye, Jude
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The Mongols invaded Japan for the first time in 1274. In the aftermath of the bloody invasion, survivors attempt to overcome their horror and grief to cobble together a strategy to live, to thrive. Wakou is a story of such people. It is also a story about medieval Japan society, religion, and traditions, including the very real presence of demons, both terrifying and protective. Wakou is Japanese for pirate, and pirating is the strategy our protagonists have chosen for their lives. Rin is one such survivor. She has lived in the woods and combs the beach of her home island, Tsushima, since the…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Mongols invaded Japan for the first time in 1274. In the aftermath of the bloody invasion, survivors attempt to overcome their horror and grief to cobble together a strategy to live, to thrive. Wakou is a story of such people. It is also a story about medieval Japan society, religion, and traditions, including the very real presence of demons, both terrifying and protective. Wakou is Japanese for pirate, and pirating is the strategy our protagonists have chosen for their lives. Rin is one such survivor. She has lived in the woods and combs the beach of her home island, Tsushima, since the Mongols murdered her parents and burnt their home to the ground. She is not alone...Rin has gained a protective demon: Moritaka. To others' eyes, Moritaka is a young girl much like Rin. Rin calls her Sameko, or "Little Shark" because of her grey skin and her sharp little teeth. Make Sameko angry, however, or threaten Rin in any way, and Moritaka emerges in his true form: he's huge. He's blue. He is strong, so strong. And a deadly danger to any who stand in his way. Rin rediscovers her uncle, Zamakitsune, and is invited to join him and the crew he has assembled: they will be pirates! Sameko's eyes light up and she licks her narrow lips. This is going to be fun.
Autorenporträt
Jude LaHaye enjoyed a career spanning twenty-five years before ever turning his hand to writing. He worked hard - always putting in extra hours and effort - as an Army and then a DoD Logistician, blaming his "day job" for his inability to become a writer. And then he got his chance: he jumped on an opportunity for an early retirement from civil service. It was hard. That first book took him almost two years, at the end of which he questioned his life-long ambition to become an author. But it also broke something loose: after struggling over that first book, he now writes fluidly, finishing as many as three books in any given year. LaHaye lives a solitary life, preferring his own company to that of others, living and creating predominately in his head - and then putting many of those ideas down on paper to become the backbones of his novels. He has a wife, Liz, who is as extroverted as he is introverted. She is his inspiration for some of his more outgoing and optimistic characters. His four children are all as different from one another as they can be, providing yet more inspiration for good, bad - or simply weird. LaHaye and his family live on an island in Washington State on the Puget Sound, where they enjoy fauna, flora, and majestic views of forests, mountains, and ocean.