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The
2004 Award
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When
the Emperor was Divine
by Julie Otsuka |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| When
the Emperor was Divine paints a portrait of the Japanese internment
camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision,
Otsuka uses a single family tree to evoke the deracination - both physical
and emotional - of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters,
each 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. It is a haunting evocation of a family in wartime. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California, USA. She is a graduate of Yale University and received her M.F.A from Columbia. She lives in New York City. This is her first novel. |
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