Book Title: Shipwrecks /Bp
ISBN: 9781786890535
By Author(s):YOSHIMURA AKIRA
By Publisher:CANONGATE
Format:PB
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.