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The Boy and the Samurai
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2013
Lexile Score
700
Reading Level
3
نویسنده
George Guidallناشر
Recorded Books, Inc.شابک
9781470355135
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
![AudioFile Magazine](https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg)
Orphaned by Japan's feudal wars, Saru tells the tale of his life on the streets, his rescue of a Samurai lord and his wife, and their harrowing escape to the safety of a Buddhist temple far over the mountains. George Guidall reads with a measured care which captures Saru's structured society. This dispassionate technique makes the privation and danger in Saru's life even more vivid. It has the added advantage of giving the listener time to recognize unfamiliar names and terms of address. Guidall's relentless performance draws the listener closer and closer to Saru, the Old Priest, and the Samurai lord. L.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
![Publisher's Weekly](https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png)
March 4, 1991
Saru (``monkey'') lives by begging in feudal Japan. Orphaned and abandoned, Saru watches the constant battling of the warlords and their hired samurai with disgust. He recalls his adventures as a street urchin--he runs afoul of a band of thieves, then sees them massacred; he spends the winter alone living under the shrine of a minor deity, and makes a true friend in Priest Jogen. It is with Jogen that Saru has his greatest adventure. Despite his prejudice against samurai, the boy concocts a plot to rescue the imprisoned wife of the samurai Murakami. Offering a vivid look at an unusual place and time, Haugaard ( The Samurai's Tale ) has created a character that will linger in the reader's memory. Saru's story is drawn with a verisimilitude that overcomes a potentially alien setting, and makes his reminiscences immediate and sympathetic. Ages 10-14.
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