The Wayfinder: A Novel
Johnson, Adam
Sold by BJ's Book Barn, Kennesaw, GA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since October 4, 2001
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 4 available
Add to basketSold by BJ's Book Barn, Kennesaw, GA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since October 4, 2001
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 4 available
Add to basketStated first edition - first printing. Signed by author on title page. Book is clean and tight. Dust jacket in protective cover. 716 pages.
Seller Inventory # 011168
A Most Anticipated Book of the Fall: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune
"An epic of extraordinary abundance . . . modern and mythological. . . wondrous enough to endure."
―The Wall Street Journal
“A powerful and original epic . . . Deadly politics, tragic romance and dangerous sea journeys keep the drama at a spirited boil.”
―The New York Times
A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen.
Talking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the breath of life―this is the world young Kōrero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her island, a place so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. Her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation, and the wayward stranger offers them an impossible choice: they can remain in the only home they’ve ever known and await the uncertainty to come, or Kōrero can join him and venture into unfamiliar waters, guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a bountiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What Kōrero and her people don’t know is that the promised refuge is no utopia―instead, Tonga is an empire at war and on the verge of collapse, a place where brains are regularly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some frequency.
The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting, graves are being opened, and everyone lives in fear of a jellyfish tattoo. Here, survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together, the stranger and Kōrero embark upon an epic voyage―one that will deliver them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific.
Evoking the grandeur of Wolf Hall and the splendor of Shōgun, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Adam Johnson conjures oral history, restores the natural world, and locates what’s best in humanity. Toweringly ambitious and breathtakingly immersive, The Wayfinder is an instant, timeless classic.
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