The Buddha in the attic
Finalist for the 2011 National Book AwardJulie Otsuka's long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine ("To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird" -- Th...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House Audio,
2011.
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Summary: | Finalist for the 2011 National Book AwardJulie Otsuka's long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine ("To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird" -- The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as 'picture brides' nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war. In language that has the force and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream. From the Hardcover edition. |
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| Item Description: | Unabridged. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (4 audio files) : digital |
| Playing Time: | 03:52:55 |
| Format: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 109355 KB). |
| ISBN: | 9780307940766 |
| Author Notes: | Samantha Quan is a graduate of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University. She has performed onstage in New York and regionally, including appearances at The Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Globe Theatres. Samantha presently resides in Los Angeles, where she works in film and television. Carrington MacDuffie is a recording artist and spoken-word performer whose voice acting has been featured in several independent films. Following a lengthy run with a New York vaudeville revue, she spent many years singing, writing, and producing multimedia performances with her seven-piece pop band. Her one-woman spoken-word show, On the Dreaming Earth , has been staged at various venues in Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest. MacDuffie has received several of AudioFile 's Earphones awards, and KLIATT says, "MacDuffie's reading is amazing." |
