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The Wayfinder

The Wayfinder


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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son comes a mythic masterpiece and historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen.  

Young Korero has spent her entire life on an island so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. When a mysterious visitor lands on the island, her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation. But the wayward stranger offers a choice: they can remain in the only home they’ve ever known and await the uncertainty to come or Korero can join him and venture into unfamiliar waters, guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a bountiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. Together, the stranger and Korero embark upon an epic voyage that will deliver them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific.

Evoking the grandeur of Wolf Hall and the splendour of Shogun, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Adam Johnson vividly re-imagines a world where history is story-telling and humanity lives in the embrace of the natural world. Toweringly ambitious and breathtakingly immersive, The Wayfinder is an instant, timeless classic.



About the Author :
Adam Johnson?is the author of?Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award and the Story Prize and?The Orphan Master’s Son, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the California Book Award. His previous books include the short-story collection?Emporium?and the novel?Parasites Like Us. Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Stanford University.

Review :
‘Epic in every sense of the word, this is a high wire act that burns the net below.’  'How lucky we are that Adam Johnson has ignited for us this wild, epic and utterly captivating skein of human history. His years of immersion in the Polynesian oral tradition and research into the Tu‘itonga Empire shimmer through The Wayfinder at every twist, but his rollicking storytelling leads the way.'  'From talking corpses to poetic parrots, The Wayfinder is bursting at the seams with ideas and blistering prose.'  'Expansive in scope, historically detailed and totally enthralling . . . Johnson's monumental research into the history, legacy and imprint of the Polynesian culture is evident in the meticulous detail of his narrative?which is about much more than his characters, whose vibrancy demands acknowledgement, and his gorgeous landscape descriptions . . . Part bildungsroman, part historical exploration, this novel is a study of the many islands in the South Pacific, their power struggles, abuses of power and the perseverance to survive.'  'A majestic saga of political unrest in the South Pacific and a girl's quest to save her people . . . This is remarkable.'  '[Johnson’s] audacious, unruly imagination roams with confidence through the island kingdom of Tonga . . . A grand, perilous and transfiguring adventure . . . Enchanted touches are deftly threaded into the rangy storyline by Johnson's richly lyrical prose, which is also capable of handling the social dynamics of the Tongans along with the background stories of royalty and their rivals . . . A world that, like the pendant recovered at the novel’s start, feels ‘both ancient and startlingly new.’'  '[An] epic-scale historical adventure from Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson . . . Johnson paints a rich tale of nature, politics and tradition . . . It's a unique, spellbinding saga that drew us into an elaborate world.'  'This is one of [Adam Johnson's] biggest swings yet . . . A sprawling epic.' 
  ‘An epic of extraordinary abundance . . . modern and mythological . . . wondrous enough to endure’ 'Johnson is a master builder of fictive worlds. The Wayfinder is a story of cultural erasure wrapped into a fantastical fable.' 


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781761826016
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster Australia
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 736
  • ISBN-10: 1761826018
  • Publisher Date: 26 May 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 153 mm


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