When The Emperor Was Divine

Description

It is four months after Pearl Harbour and overnight signs appear all over the United States instructing Japanese Americans to report to internment camps for the duration of the war. For one family it proves to be a nightmare of oppression and alienation. Explored from varying points of view - the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train journey; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return home; and the bitter release of their father after four years in captivity - it tells of an incarceration that will alter their lives for ever. Based on a true story, Julie Otsuka's powerful, deeply humane novel tells of an unjustly forgotten episode in America's wartime history. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012 for The Buddha in the Attic 'Honest and gloriously written, will haunt you long after you've turned the final page. Brilliant.' Elle 'An intense jewel of a book written with clarity and beauty.' Marie Claire 'Vindicates the suffering of the Japanese in America . . . a blistering first novel.' The Times Literary Supplement 'A compelling, powerful portrait of a terrible endurance. Terrific.' The Times 'Exceptional.' New Yorker

About the Author

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

ORDERS

DEMANDS

Popular Categories

All Categories

Fiction

Non Fiction

Fiction

Non Fiction

Popular Categories

All Categories

Art and Crafts

Stationery

Arts & Craft

Stationery

More Buying Options

Description

About the Author

Bestsellers in Fiction

About Us

Contact Us

Help

Social Media

Popular Categories

All Categories

Popular Categories

All Categories

Popular Categories

All Categories

Popular Categories

Fiction

Non Fiction

All Categories

Fiction

Non Fiction

Age Groups

Age 0-6 Categories

Age 7-12 Categories

Popular Categories

All Categories

All Categories

Popular Categories

All Categories

Popular Categories

Art and Crafts

Stationery

All Categories

Arts & Craft

Stationery

Puzzles

Toys

Games

More Buying Options

Description

About the Author

Bestsellers in Fiction