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When the emperor was divine a novel

Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Otsuka, Julie, 1962-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Anchor Books, 2003, c2002.
Edition:	1st Anchor Books ed.
Subjects:	Japanese Americans > Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > California > Fiction. Japanese American families > Fiction. Concentration camp inmates > Fiction. Concentration camps > Fiction. California > Fiction. Historical fiction > California.
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Summary:	Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
Physical Description:	144 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:	0385721811 9780385721813
Author Notes:	JULIE OTSUKA was born and raised in California. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine won the 2003 Asian American Literary Award and the 2003 American Library Association Alex Award. Her second novel, The Buddha in the Attic, was a finalist for the National Book Award 2011 and won the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2011 Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. The Buddha in the Attic was an international bestseller and the winner of the prestigious Prix Femina étranger 2012, and the Albatros Literaturpreis 2013. She lives in New York City.