Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.
- ISBN10 0618070397
- ISBN13 9780618070398
- Publish Date 25 September 2000 (first published 25 March 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
- Format Paperback
- Pages 221
- Language English