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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 captivityâ€
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Manufacturer: Anchor
Release date: 14 October 2003
ISBN-10 : 0385721811 | ISBN-13: 9780385721813
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Release date: 14 October 2003
ISBN-10 : 0385721811 | ISBN-13: 9780385721813
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