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Julie Otsuka's commanding and passionate debut novel explores unfamiliar history - that of Japanese Americans in World War II.
With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination of a generation who find themselves interned in their own country. With each chapter flawlessly executed from a different point of view - the mother; the daughter; the son; the family's return to their home; and the bitter release of their father - she has created a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion.
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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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)
Exceptional (New Yorker)
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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)
The poignant story of a Japanese-American family separated and interred during the Second World War is the subject of Julie Otsuka 's novel. When The Emperor Was Divine examines the fate of those who are caught up in events bigger than themselves. For one middle-class Japanese family living comfortably in Berkeley, California, the weeks following Pearl Harbour turn their American dream into a nightmare. After the father is arrested and taken away, the mother can only hope that by destroying all that they have of their Japanese roots she and her children will be spared the same fate. But despite her precautions, she and her two children are taken away. Through the eyes of the children, the story follows their train journey across the United States and to a camp in the deserts of Utah, where they discover they are now the "enemy". After three years, they return to their boarded and looted home. Eventually their father is returned to them, a damaged - and different - man.. Told from the perspective of each member of the family, this book reveals how it feels to be an alien in one 's own country.
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- Publication date2003
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- ISBN 13 9780670912636
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