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Julie Otsuka
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When the Emperor Was Divine |
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0385721811 |
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mb (USA: MI) (2009/10/06):
In the tradition of other books on this topic, this author offers a fictional twist which tells the tale from 3-4 different viewpoints. Two from children, one/two from adults who were placed into an internment situation.
Debra (USA: OR) (2018/03/06):
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Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination both physical and emotional of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return to their home; and the bitter release of the father after more than four years in captivity she has created a small tour de force, a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion. Spare, intimate, arrestingly understated, When the Emperor Was Divine is a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times. It heralds the arrival of a singularly gifted new novelist.
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