Una historia de venganza y redenci n en el Jap n de los se ores samur is.El guerrero a la sombra del cerezo fue finalista al Premio Fernando Lara y ganadora del Premio Hislibris de Novela Hist rica.
Mejor novela hist rica del 2017 para los lectores de XX Siglos, el blog literario del diario 20 Minutos.
Jap n, finales del siglo XVI. El pa s deja atr s la era de los estados en guerra y se adentra en un titubeante periodo de paz. Entre las v ctimas del largo conflicto se halla Seizo Ikeda, nico sobreviviente del clan regente de la provincia de Izumo, hu rfano a los nueve a os tras el exterminio de su casa. Hostigado por los asesinos de su familia y condenado al destierro y al olvido, inicia un largo peregrinaje al amparo de Kenzaburo Arima, ltimo samur i con vida del ej rcito de su padre, convertido ahora en su mentor. En el otro extremo del pa s, Ekei Inafune, un m dico repudiado por aplicar las artes aprendidas entre los b rbaros llegados de Occidente, se ve implicado en una conjura urdida a la sombra de los clanes m s poderosos del pa s. Una conspiraci n capaz de acabar con el fr gil periodo de calma que da comienzo. Una novela cruda y bella, cargada de matices, que nos hace viajar a trav s de un Jap n devastado por m s de dos siglos de guerra, entre cuyas cenizas, sin embargo, florecen los m s hermosos cerezos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA story of revenge and redemption in the Japan of the samurai lords.
The Warrior in the Shadow of the Cherry Tree was a finalist for the Fernando Lara Prize and winner of the Hislibris Prize for Historical Fiction.
Best historical novel of 2017 according to readers of XX Siglos, the literary blog of the newspaper 20 Minutos.
Japan, late 16th century. The country leaves behind the warring states period and enters a tentative era of peace. Among the victims of the long conflict is Seizo Ikeda, the sole survivor of the ruling clan of Izumo Province, orphaned at the age of nine following the extermination of his family. Hounded by his family's killers and condemned to exile and oblivion, he embarks on a long journey under the protection of Kenzaburo Arima, the last surviving samurai of his father's army, who has now become his mentor. On the other side of the country, Ekei Inafune, a doctor ostracized for practicing the arts he learned from the barbarians who arrived from the West, finds himself entangled in a conspiracy hatched in the shadows of the country's most powerful clans. A conspiracy capable of ending the fragile period of calm that is just beginning. A raw and beautiful novel, rich in nuance, that takes us on a journey through a Japan devastated by more than two centuries of war, from whose ashes, however, the most beautiful cherry blossoms bloom.
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