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Print: $10.95 Download: $5.95 Sixteenth century Japan is a country in turmoil, a land plagued by unceasing war and the reckless ambition of powerful men. It is the home of Watanabe Kenjiro, the unwilling heir to a ruined warrior family, who flees into mountainous Iga ahead of the relentless advance of Oda Nobunaga's armies. In the shelter of this fiercely independent backwater Kenjiro finds a new life, a new family, and a thing he has never known: love. But the resentful spirits of his father and his murderous brother continue to dog his dreams, and nowhere is safe from Nobunaga, the ruthless warlord destined to unite Japan.
Ghost of Iga is a powerful novel of family and war, a literary memoir that strips away the popular conception of Medieval Japan and recasts it in an uncompromisingly human light.
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