When the Emperor was Divine
Author(s): Julie Otsuka
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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Anchor Books
- : Anchor Books
- : 0.147418
- : 01 October 2003
- : .41 Inches X 5.14 Inches X 7.99 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Julie Otsuka
- : paperback
- : English
- : good
- : 144