Fiction
The Floating Castle
by Ryō Wada
Description
Set in feudal Japan, the story is based on the Siege of Oshi and depicts the struggle of Oshi's villagers in defending their fortress against Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign against the Hojo clan. Against insurmountable odds, Narita Nagachika, the fortress's castellan, leads a group of 500 men against 20,000 men led by Ishida Mitsunari, part of Toyotomi clan's greater army of 20,000 samurai.
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Rights Information
Sold to China, Korea, Taiwan
film rights : "The Floating Castle "(2012)
Trailer
https://youtu.be/YSYtmSRix3g
Marketing Information
sales figures in Japan : 2,100,000 + comic virsion 200,000
“Japan Bookseller Award” the second prize
Reviews
Emily's note:
Before I read the fiction, I was curious why the historian fiction can sell over 2 million copies? If the readers don’t know about the history background, will they be interested in the story? After reading, you will fall in love with the main character Narita Nagachika and became his fans. You will fight for him the same as others in the story.
Author Biography
Ryō Wada (和田 竜, b.1969-) is a Japanese screenwriter and historical novelist. Two of his novels have been adapted to films, The Floating Castle and Land of Stealth.
He was nominated to Naoki Prize.
Emily Publishing Company
Founded in 2012 by Emily Chuang. Emily Publishing mainly publishes translated fiction, non-fiction and children's picture books and starts to represent selected books from Taiwan and Japan to all over the world since 2019.
View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher Shogakukan
- Orginal LanguageJapanese
- ISBN/Identifier 9784094085518 / 4094085513
- Publication Country or regionJapan
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 494 JPY
- Pages219
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Titleのぼうの城
- Original Language Authors和田 竜
- Copyright Year2010
