The Reviews Are In…

Kirkus Review

"The author’s quiet prose artfully evokes Kurosawa’s world, in which every space and person has a spiritual dimension... the novel succeeds in re-creating a time and, perhaps more importantly, a worldview that many readers will enjoy getting lost in. An immersive and cerebral historical novel steeped in Zen Buddhist ideas."

Louis Bayard

Author of Pale Blue Eye and The Wildes

“C.A. Parker is either a thoroughly accomplished novelist or an out-and-out time traveler, for he has given us the kind of window into 18th-century Japan that suggests he lived and walked there. With this engrossing debut, Parker proves himself a master at reanimating lost worlds.”

Riley Lee

Shakuhachi Grandmaster

"What a tale! I got totally swept up with the story ... a great yarn guided by Japanese history, culture and philosophy."

“Parker’s prose is light and flowing, making for an easy, pleasurable read, while the humour and drama are balanced with spiritual contemplation and depictions of the practice of religion in pre-modern Japan.”

“I am completely amazed at the effort, study, and imagination that went into it…It is a masterpiece of literature.”

“Imagine that The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales, and Shogun had a baby…the result would be The Song of a Samurai.”