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The Buddha In the attic
[Paperback - 2012]
julie otsuka
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Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780241956489 | Pages: 129
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The long awaited follow-up to 'When the Emperor was Divine' tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as mail-order brides, nearly a century ago.

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Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. After studying art as an undergraduate at Yale University she pursued a career as a painter for several years before turning to fiction writing at age 30. She received her MFA from Columbia. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Asian American Literary Award, and the American Library Association Alex Award.Her first novel,When the Emperor Was Divine, is about the internment of a Japanese-American family during World War II. It was aNew York TimesNotable Book, aSan Francisco ChronicleBest Book of the Year, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers finalist. The book is based on Otsuka’s own family history: her grandfather was arrested by the FBI as a suspected spy for Japan the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and her mother, uncle and grandmother spent three years in an internment camp in Topaz, Utah.When the Emperor Was Divinehas been translated into six languages and sold more than 250,000 copies.The New York Timescalled it “a resonant and beautifully nuanced achievement” andUSA Todaydescribed it as “A gem of a book and one of the most vivid history lessons you’ll ever learn.” It has been assigned to all incoming freshmen at more than 35 colleges and universities and is a regular ‘Community Reads’ selection across the US.Her second novel,The Buddha in the Attic, is about a group of young Japanese ‘picture brides’ who sailed to America in the early 1900s to become the wives of men they had never met and knew only by their photographs. It has been nominated for the 2011 National Book Award.Otsuka’s fiction has been published inGrantaandHarper’sand read aloud on PRI’s “Selected Shorts” and BBC Radio 4’s “Book at Bedtime.” She lives in New York City, where she writes every afternoon in her neighborhood café.Become a fan of Julie Otsuka on Facebook

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