The Shadow of The Samurai. 47 Ronin.

This novel is based on an ancient epic adventure story about a group of samurai who decided to avenge the death of his master, and fulfill the precepts of the way of the samurai.
The story that inspired the movie “47 Ronin”, a Hollywood blockbuster starring Keanu Reeves, which will be released on 27th December, 2013, with big media hype.

The novel also tells, chapter by chapter, the former Japanese epic, a heroic example of honor, loyalty, dedication, perseverance, courage, and love, and a parallel plot current internal struggle and self-improvement. Both stories merge to an extraordinary final outcome.

The Shadow of the Samurai. 47 Ronin, is the story of David, a young lawyer of success driven by fate to a dramatic change in his life and all. The suffering and pain of losing his family would take a trip to the depths of Japan to learn the tradition of samurai suicide dignity and power. However, it is immersed in an unexpected and bold commitment to himself and with life in the fight against the indignity and evil embodied by Kira, the evil ringmaster Shogun’s government, the real ruler of ancient Japan.

On a plot of the past is interwoven cross-reading of this that make The Shadow of the Samurai, 47 Ronin, of a time an epic and historical novel, a novel of personal growth, a novel of love and loyalty and a novel of magic and struggle against the forces of evil.

The protagonist discover their old identity of a past life incarnation as a samurai in Japan in the early eighteenth century.

The thread of the plot of the novel navigates between pure fiction and historical accuracy. Most of the characters that appear in its pages transited roads, markets, streets, mountains and the reaches of Japan in the distant past.

For the recreation of the historic fabric and real characters, the author has used various documentary sources: plays of the time (kabuki, bunraku, no), articles and historical works… and years of study of nature, lifestyle, customs and religions merging and traditions of the Country of the Rising Sun.

An argument with an exciting pace and at same time, poetic, full of fascinating coincidences and chances to finally discover how the plot as the destination.
“The Young Cherry Blossom is our emblem: we live and die beautifully, a beautiful life and ephemeral”.
This is a new form of literature, a pleasure for the senses.

The author, Raul de la Rosa, is a writer and philosopher practical. Has experienced and deepened in the fields of mind and consciousness, ancient tradition and ecology.
His deep knowledge in these areas has been enriched by the encounter with other cultures, the result of his travels. In his books through the alchemy of the word and creating universes mixture of fiction and reality, addressing the awakening of consciousness through the experience and understanding of the true human nature.