by Kawai Strong Washburn · tapa dura · ISBN 9780374272081
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«Sharks in the Time of Saviors» is the magic realism novel by Kawai Strong Washburn, published by MCD in hardback (384 pages, in English).
In 1995, Nainoa falls into the Pacific and a shark returns him to his mother; his family sees it as a gift from the Hawaiian gods. Years later, Noa is a paramedic in Portland, Dean a college athlete in Washington, and Kaui studies in California, but the supernatural returns to Hawaii and forces them to confront their heritage and the cost of surviving.
Novel winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel and the Minnesota Book Award.
For readers of literary fiction, magic realism, and family sagas; suitable for book clubs.
