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The Lost Ryu

De : Emi Watanabe Cohen
Lu par : Kurt Kanazawa
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Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryū in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and 20 years later, they've become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryū, Yuharu, but...Kohei has a memory of the big ryū. He knows that's impossible, but still, it's there, in his mind. In it, he can see his grandpa—Ojiisan—gazing up at the big ryū with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. When Kohei was little, he dreamed he'd go on a grand quest to bring the big ryū back, to get Ojiisan to smile again.  

But now, Ojiisan is really, really sick. And Kohei is running out of time.  

Kohei needs to find the big ryū now, before it's too late. With the help of Isolde, his new half-Jewish, half-Japanese neighbor; and Isolde's Yiddish-speaking dragon, Cheshire; he thinks he can do it. Maybe. He doesn't have a choice.  

In The Lost Ryū, debut author Emi Watanabe Cohen gives us a story of multigenerational pain, magic, and the lengths to which we'll go to protect the people we love.

©2022 Emi Watanabe Cohen (P)2022 Recorded Books Dragons et créatures mythiques Fantasy et magie Fiction historique Roman et littérature Science-fiction et fantasy
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It has the exotic flavour of Grace Lin’s own dragon 🐉 stories and Sue Lynn Tan’s trilogy but this is a younger kids story, so more innocent in a way, despite building on the themes of war, guilt and responsibility. In that way, it ties in to Miyazaki’s work with Studio Ghibli. It also reminded me of Japanese American author Ruth Ozeki in addressing the challenge of mixed identity, with the added topic of Jewishness and Holocaust survival which is all too contemporary. In short, a multi-layered story that can be understood in many ways by different age groups. An undoubtedly worthwhile read for children and their parents alike!

Transported into the magical world of fairy tales with the taste of historical moral questions

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