{"product_id":"floating-city-isbn-9780345809902","title":"Floating City","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the prize-winning author of\u003ci\u003e The Electrical Field \u003c\/i\u003ecomes\u003ci\u003e Citizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e reimagined: a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the water, too. Make a few dollars. But then the war comes, and Frankie finds himself in a mountai n internment camp, his small dreams of success dashed by the great tides of history. \u003cbr\u003e     After the war, Frankie tries his luck in Toronto, where possibility awaits in the form of a patron who teaches him how to turn effort into money, and a starry-eyed architect who teaches Frankie something harder to come by: the ability to dream big. Buckminster Fuller's role as Frankie's outsized spiritual mentor is one of just many real-life touchstones and extraordinary points of colour in this fairytale-like story about family, ambition and the costs of turning our backs on history and home.\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Canada-Japan Literary Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Awards \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNOW \u003c\/i\u003e(Toronto) Top Ten Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFloating City\u003c\/i\u003e pulls us into a narrative traversing generations, waterways, legends, and history. The ambition coursing through Frankie Hanasaka and his story of success is fostered by chance meetings and tempered by magic, myth, and the watchful eyes of his family. With an impressive agility to collage a range of inner and outer voices, Kerri Sakamoto weaves together a life from the shores of Port Alberni, to the shacks of Tashme, to the glimmering towers of Toronto and leaves us pondering how fortunes are made.” —\u003cb\u003e2018 Canada Council for the Arts \u003cb\u003ePeer Assessment Committee for the \u003c\/b\u003eCanada-Japan Literary Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written in a whimsically poetic and almost magical tone, \u003ci\u003eFloating City\u003c\/i\u003e explores themes of hope, chasing dreams, struggle, and the need to belong. When the book ends, readers will feel nothing short of reflective upon reading the final chapter.” —Jemicah Colleen Marasigan, \u003ci\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“All that is solid melts into prose in Kerri Sakamoto’s entrancing new novel. The raw pain of Canada’s Japanese internment, the earth and concrete that gave rise to modern Toronto, even the flesh and bone of our mortal bodies, she weaves into a soaring narrative of vast ideas and acute sensation. Frankie Hanesaka is a completely original creation, and \u003ci\u003eFloating City\u003c\/i\u003e a marvel.” —\u003cb\u003eCameron Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e, Artistic Director, Toronto International Film Festival\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Kerri Sakamoto is a magician. The way she handles language is wizardly. Her gifts for imagery dazzle. She has written a tender, sad, shimmering story about a boy named Frankie who dares to dream and aspire in an unwelcoming world. \u003ci\u003eFloating City\u003c\/i\u003e is as vibrant as a fairy tale, as aching and rueful as a Japanese \u003ci\u003eenka\u003c\/i\u003e song. I loved this novel and its deep, reflective whimsy. It floated me to a spellbinding place of broken hopes and blooming magic.” —\u003cb\u003eKyo Maclear\u003c\/b\u003e, #1 bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBirds, Art, Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eFloating City\u003c\/i\u003e is a boldly conceived and richly provocative tale of one man’s dreams, schemes, and unbridled striving for destiny. You will never look at Toronto’s waterfront or skyline again without thinking of the meaning of home.” —\u003cb\u003eLynne Kutsukake\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Translation of Love\u003c\/i\u003eKERRI SAKAMOTO debuted as a novelist in 1998 with \u003ci\u003eThe Electrical Field\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the Canada-Japan Literary Award. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Million Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2003 to critical acclaim. 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