The debut novel from the PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Author of The Buddha in the Attic
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 internment 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.
In When the Emperor was Divine, a Japanese-American family of four has been irrevocably harmed by a government order that sent the father to prison and the mother, son, and daughter to an internment camp where they lived under 24-hour monitoring and almost ...
评分In When the Emperor was Divine, a Japanese-American family of four has been irrevocably harmed by a government order that sent the father to prison and the mother, son, and daughter to an internment camp where they lived under 24-hour monitoring and almost ...
评分In When the Emperor was Divine, a Japanese-American family of four has been irrevocably harmed by a government order that sent the father to prison and the mother, son, and daughter to an internment camp where they lived under 24-hour monitoring and almost ...
评分In When the Emperor was Divine, a Japanese-American family of four has been irrevocably harmed by a government order that sent the father to prison and the mother, son, and daughter to an internment camp where they lived under 24-hour monitoring and almost ...
评分In When the Emperor was Divine, a Japanese-American family of four has been irrevocably harmed by a government order that sent the father to prison and the mother, son, and daughter to an internment camp where they lived under 24-hour monitoring and almost ...
They can never go back, even they go back to their old house. But life will keep going anyway.
评分喜欢作者的叙述方法。感觉明明发生很大的变化却用很细腻的文字体现出来。剧情不太吸引我… 听说是美高reading list中的书
评分They can never go back, even they go back to their old house. But life will keep going anyway.
评分This novel changed my mind about Japanese.
评分Japanese Internment,中国的历史教材里没有涉及的历史。前面读起来无动于衷。Anna和Andrew说it's terrible的时候韩国女生和我都说跟日本人在中国韩国做的事情比起来这真是nothing.但我也知道这是不同的。和敌国战斗牺牲和被自己的国家怀疑囚禁审讯逼供当然是不同的。所有人物在后面都呈现了不同症状的trauma.有些片段读起来很受震动。
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