by C. W. Nicol · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817676038
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«Harpoon» is the historical novel by C. W. Nicol published by Rizzoli in 1987 in hardcover, with 472 pages in Italian.
Historical novel set in Japan during the Meiji Restoration: it follows Jinsuke, son of the harpooner of a whaling village, and Sadayori, a samurai of aristocratic class, whose lives cross during the fall of the shogunate and the opening of the country to Western ships. It portrays whaling, class tensions, and a violent era of transformation.
It belongs to the Scala stranieri series by Rizzoli. The Italian translation is by Pier Francesco Paolini.
For readers of historical fiction interested in 19th-century Japan and the end of the shogunate.
