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When The Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka

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  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2003)
  • ALA Alex Award (2003)
  • Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association) (2022)
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When The Emperor Was Divine

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ISBN: 9780241963449
Author: Julie Otsuka
Publisher: Penguin
Date of Publication: 2013-02-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction
Related Topics: War, World War II
Goodreads rating: 3.8
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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.From the Hardcover edition.
 

  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2003)
  • ALA Alex Award (2003)
  • Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association) (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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