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When the emperor was divine : a novel / Julie Otsuka.
"From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines."-- Amazon
Record details
- ISBN: 0385721811
- ISBN: 0375414290
- Physical Description: 143 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition: First Anchor Books paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf : 2003.
- Copyright: ©2002
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | 810L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5 5 68644. |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. War fiction. |
Available copies
- 17 of 17 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Scenic Regional.
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- 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Scenic Regional-Hermann | FIC OTS (Text) | 3007670721 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Scenic Regional-Union | FIC OTS (Text) | 3007670713 | Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines."--
