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When the Emperor Was Divine

By Julie Otsuka

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When the Emperor Was Divine

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The debut novel from the PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Author of The Buddha in the Attic On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2003-10-14
Publication Date:
2003-10-14
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0385721811
ISBN13:
9780385721813
Weight:
155 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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