Yukiko

✍ Scribed by MacDonald Harris

• Publisher: Galileo Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

It is August of 1945. An American submarine, silent and hidden, moves toward the darkened coast of an island. On board are an odd quartet: Gus, a commander who was once a student of religion; Angelo, a skilled navigator who conceals his secret almost to the end; Havenmeyer, who understands firearms and explosives better than he does the complexities of the soul; and Ikeda, caught be tween two cultures and uncertain where his loyalty lies.
Thus begins a book like no other book: partly an adventure-thriller set in wartime Japan, partly a glimpse into a primitive world in which the Ainu who still live in small settle ments on Hokkaido are turned into a race of occult artificers, half real and half magic. Interwoven into this is what is surely one of the strangest sexual encounters in modern litera ture. In spite of the electric air of calmness in which everything hap pens, the suspense builds page by page. When the climax finally comes, it is a double one, as unexpected as it is inevitable.