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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."

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• Full title: When the Emperor Was Divine
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: Julie Otsuka
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9780385721813
• ISBN: 0385721811
• ID: 10988896
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Weight: 181 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2003

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