Orphaned at thirteen, Hikotaro makes his way from Japan to San Francisco, where he soon dreams of returning home, but after being denied passage on Commodore Perry's ship, he returns to the U.S., and then back to his own troubled country. 25,000 first printing.
AKIRA YOSHIMURA is the prize-winning author of twenty novels and short-story collections, many of them bestsellers in Japan. He is president of Japan’s writers’ union and a member of PEN International. Storm Rider is the fourth of his novels to
be translated into English.Yoshimura lives in Tokyo.