The Swimmers

Julie Otsuka

Penguin Books, Ltd.

When The Emperor Was Divine

When the Emperor Was Divine

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.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

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Connect Online Access for Designing and Managing the Supply Chain

McGraw-Hill Higher Education (US)

For use in schools and libraries only. A story told from five different points of view chronicles the experiences of Japanese-Americans caught up in the nightmare of the World War II internment camps.

Contemporary

Bt Bound

When the Emperor Was Divine: A Novel

Paw Prints 2008-05-22

Buddha in the Attic

Fig Tree

When the Emperor was Divine - Hebrew book for Adults

yedioth

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