The acclaimed author Kerri Sakamoto discusses her new novel Floating City (Knopf, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

Floating City by Kerri Sakamoto (Knopf, 2018). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Floating City

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

A fascinating new novel just out now is the new book from the critically acclaimed Kerri Sakamoto, Floating City. It’s a book about an ambitious young man who grows up in Port Alberni, in a floating house amongst Japanese bachelors working in the logging camps. As World War II comes, Frankie Hanesaka is interned. This experience shapes him and fuels his desire to move up. After the war, he moves to Toronto and falls in with Buckminster Fuller. I’ll get Ms. Sakamoto who joined me earlier this month while in Victoria, British Columbia, to tell us about her book, this character, and the backdrop of history and setting that this book illustrates. Kerri Sakamoto’s debut novel The Electrical Field was published in 1998, soon nominated for numerous awards, and winning the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and the Canada-Japan Literary Award. Her second novel, One Hundred Million Hearts was released in 2003. This new book is published by Knopf. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Kerri Sakamoto; Ms. Sakamoto, good morning.

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