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Odori

Winner of the 2008 Canada-Japan Literary Award In the spring of 1999, Mai Yoshimoto-Lanier falls into a coma after her husband loses control of the old Ford and drives over a bridge into the Belly River. Eddie dies. But Mai falls into the world of her great-grandmother on the island of Hamahiga somewhere between heaven and earth. Odori is a novel that navigates through the glorious Ryukyuan Kingdom and the Golden Era of the Sho Dynasty, through bloody World War II Okinawa, and over parched prairies of Southern Alberta

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 267
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781897151099
  • Settings
  • Alberta
  • Genres
  • fiction, canada
  • Release date
  • 2007