by Takashi Matsuoka · Sperling & Kupfer · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788882747091
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«Nube di passeri» is the historical novel by Takashi Matsuoka, published by Sperling & Kupfer in paperback (494 pages, in Italian).
Set in feudal Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, it tells how three Americans visit the young lord Genji of Akaoka, the only survivor of a samurai clan. Amid prophecies, conspiracies, samurai and a geisha with a secret past, the plot combines adventure, romance and the clash between Japanese tradition and the West.
First installment of the Samurai saga. Italian translation by Lidia Perria of the original English novel Cloud of Sparrows (2002).
For readers of historical and adventure novels who enjoy samurai Japan, prophecies and plots of intrigue and romance.
Cloud of Sparrows (2002) is the first historic novel by author Takashi Matsuoka featuring the struggle of Genji, the young Great Lord of Akaoka, in the year 1861. This is only six years after Japan opened to the West and features three American missionaries who become involved with Genji, notably, Emily who hopes to find solace in Japan and build a church and Matthew, a product of the American West who seeks revenge.
