· “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. Floating City is as vibrant as a fairy tale, as aching and rueful as a Japanese enka song. I loved this novel Author: Kerri Sakamoto. ALSO BY KERRI SAKAMOTO The Electrical Field One Hundred Million Hearts/10(). Floating City is a standalone, historical fiction written by Kerri Sakamoto. It is a semi-bildungsroman story of a Japanese-Canadian named Frankie Hanesaka and his journey from Port Alberni, British Columbia to Toronto, Ontario. It has been short-listed for the Toronto Book Awards/5.
Citizen Kane reimagined, a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong, from the author of the Commonwealth Prize-winning and Governor General's Literary Award-nominated The Electrical Field. Frankie 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. theme of Floating City, the latest novel by Kerri Sakamoto, a Toronto-based Japanese-Canadian novelist, published in The aim of this article is to discuss this connection as represented in the novel, and explore how it influences the process of identity formation among the Japanese-Canadians, as well as to. Floating City is a standalone, historical fiction written by Kerri Sakamoto. It is a semi-bildungsroman story of a Japanese-Canadian named Frankie Hanesaka and his journey from Port Alberni, British Columbia to Toronto, Ontario. It has been short-listed for the Toronto Book Awards.
Kerri Sakamoto's novel tells of the journey from rural British Columbia to Toronto, echoing the importance of knowing our past along the way. ALSO BY KERRI SAKAMOTO The Electrical Field One Hundred Million Hearts. Kerri Sakamoto’s flight south to warmer climes after the publication of One Hundred Million Hearts (Penguin, ) has been a multi-year migration. And now that this new swallow of a novel, Floating City, has winged its way back into our literary land, one cannot but wonder: is Sakamoto back and, moreover, are there more “swallows” on the way?.
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