When the Emperor Was Divine (Paperback, 1st Anchor Books ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Anchor Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2003
First published:	October 2003
Authors:	Julie Otsuka
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	160
Edition:	1st Anchor Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-385-72181-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-385-72181-1
Barcode:	9780385721813

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