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A story told from five different points of view--a mother receiving the evacuation order, her daughter on the train ride to the camp, the son in the desert internment camp, the family's return home, and the final release of the father after years in captivity--chronicles the experiences of Japanese Americans caught up in the nightmare of the World War II internment camps. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
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A remarkable, beautifully written story of panic, prejudice and shame ... outstandingly accomplished and moving (Sunday Telegraph)
An intense jewel of a book written with clarity and beauty (Marie Claire)
Vindicates the suffering of the Japanese in America . . . a blistering first novel (The Times Literary Supplement)
A compelling, powerful portrait of a terrible endurance. Terrific (The Times)
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An intense jewel of a book written with clarity and beauty (Marie Claire)
Vindicates the suffering of the Japanese in America . . . a blistering first novel (The Times Literary Supplement)
A compelling, powerful portrait of a terrible endurance. Terrific (The Times)
Exceptional (New Yorker)
Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is a graduate of Yale University and received her M.F.A. from Columbia. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0375414290
- ISBN 13 9780375414299
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages143
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