Sharks in the Time of Saviours
A Novel
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2020
Summary
A powerful debut novel that delicately blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream.
‘The next time I went for air you were at the surface, sideways, prone and ragdolling in the mouth of a shark. But the shark was holding you gently, do you understand? It was holding you like you were made of glass, like you were its child.’
In 1995 in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores is saved from drowning by a shiver of sharks. His family, struggling to make ends mee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143796602 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143796607 |
| Author: | Kawai Strong Washburn |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 580g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm x 34mm |
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About The Author
Kawai Strong Washburn
Kawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i. His work has appeared in The Best American Non-required Reading, McSweeney’s and Mid-American Review, among others. He was selected as a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Bay Area of California. This is his first novel.
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