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Author:

Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

Title:

When the emperor was divine : a novel / Julie Otsuka.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Knopf :

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

141 pages ; 19 cm

Subject:

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--California--Fiction.
Japanese American families--Fiction.
Internment camp inmates--Fiction.
Internment camps--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
War stories.
War--Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates.
Concentration camps.
Japanese American families.
Japanese Americans.
United States.
California.
Japanese Americans--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians.
World War, 1939-1945--California--Fiction.
Japanese American families--Fiction.
Concentration camps--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
War stories.
California--Fiction.
1939-1945
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
War stories.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

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.

ISBN:

9780375414299
0375414290

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48943945

LCCN:

2002020814

Locations:

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale) — Copies: 10