Utsuro Bune

By Antonio Mori

On February 22, 1803, a strange boat landed on the east coast of Japan: it was spherical in shape, the top was bright red, and the bottom was made of metal. Even more bizarre is its sole occupant: a foreign woman with flowing red hair. At that time, however, Japan, under the Tokugawa hegemony, was a closed country: the woman was soon turned away, and the story of her arrival was lost in time until it became legend.

Italy, 2019. It is an ordinary Saturday afternoon and Gabriele is working on the development of a video game: he is employed in a large multinational company in the automotive field, but his free time is dedicated to other projects. Just as he is trying to regain his concentration, a message comes to him: it is Luna, the woman he loved in the three years he was in Japan, and whom he may never have stopped loving. He does not even have a chance to lose himself in memories, that Luna asks him for help in solving a riddle she came across during her research for her thesis: in the Ibaraki museum, among 18th-century documents, she found an Italian flag. "Impossible," Luna immediately thinks; "impossible" is what Gabriele says.

In front of them lies a two-century-old mystery, immersed in Napoleonic battles, political intrigue and extraordinary scientific discoveries; a story that winds between Italy and Japan, on whose trail, however, they are not the only ones.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DCGK47VG
• ISBN13: 9798335079242
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"