Adam Johnson

Broschiertes Buch

The Wayfinder

Beschreibung

From the author of The Orphan Master's Son (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and Fortune Smiles (winner of the US National Book Award) a mythic masterpiece named one of 'Ten Best Books of 2025' by the Wall Street Journaland the Washington Post 'An epic of extraordinary abundance... modern and mythological... wondrous enough to endure' Wall Street Journal 'Adam Johnson's awesome new novel... takes place almost a thousand years ago in Polynesia, but its real setting is that realm beyond time and place where mortals contend with gods, and mythology and history merge like twinned tree trunks...  This astonishing novel, at once so primeval and so sophisticated, pulses with the same hopes and terrors that first pricked our imaginations around a fire as the sun set - a tapestry of South Pacific myth, archetypal quest, political allegory, environmental jeremiad and feminist revision that feels both ancient and impossibly relevant.' Washington Post Talking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the breath of life-this is the world young K¿rero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her island, a place so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. Her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation, and the wayward stranger offers them an impossible choice: they can remain in the only home they've ever known and await the uncertainty to come, or K¿rero can join him and venture into unfamiliar waters, guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a bountiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What K¿rero and her people don't know is that the promised refuge is no utopia-instead, Tonga is an empire at war and on the verge of collapse, a place where brains are regularly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some frequency. The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting, graves are being opened, and everyone lives in fear of a jellyfish tattoo. Here, survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together, the stranger and K¿rero embark upon an epic voyage-one that will deliver them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific. Evoking the grandeur of Wolf Hall and the splendor of Sh¿gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson conjures oral history, restores the natural world, and locates what's best in humanity. Toweringly ambitious and breathtakingly immersive, The Wayfinder is an instant, timeless classic. 'Epic in every sense of the word, this is a high wire act that burns the net below.' Marlon James, Booker-Prizewinning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings  

Autor

Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and The Orphan Master's Son, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award. His previous books include the shortstory collection Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Stanford University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm
• ISBN-13: 9781398561571
• ISBN-10: 1398561576
• Artikelnr.: 76161433

Rezensionen

"A majestic saga of political unrest in the South Pacific and a girl's quest to save her people. . . This is remarkable."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"How lucky we are that Adam Johnson has ignited for us this wild, epic, and utterly captivating skein of human history. His years of immersion in the Polynesian oral tradition and research into the Tu'itonga Empire shimmer through The Wayfinder at every twist, but his rollicking storytelling leads the way."
-Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House

"The Wayfinder is a singular achievement. Everything you can ask for in a reading experience, and, because it's

Adam Johnson, a little bit more. There are lines in here so pure and direct and lyrical and right, they make my teeth ache."
-Stephen Graham Jones, author of The New York Times Bestseller The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

"Epic in every sense of the word, this is a high wire act that burns the net below. Epic in that it swings with the same music in great works from Gilgamesh on down. Epic in scope that races across time and space until one is no different from the other. Epic in that we are swept up in a journey where not even the reader returns. In The Wayfinder myth becomes fact, magic becomes wisdom, poetry is in the mouths of birds, and a young girl sets out to remake the world."
-Marlon James, Booker Prize winning author of Moon Witch, Spider King