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.
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读后感
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 ...
用户评价
作为移民后裔，Julie Otsuka只愿作叙写而不评价。文笔依旧细腻、平实、易读。然而过多描述同样题材，作者就易陷入某可辨识的pattern。
评分不懂为啥这本作为summer reading
评分只能回到过去看过去，而不能站在现在看过去。战争就是战争。有些片段看着来气。不同情。
评分短句，一点点加深场景的轮廓。我感触最深的不是他们被关在camp里的那三年，而是返回家园重新融入社会的日子。在学校，小孩子们往昔的朋友全都没有了，妈妈也很难找到工作，被FBI抓走的父亲回家完全变成了一位他们认不出来的老人。不知道是什么原因被抓走，又被放回，可是生活是融入不了了，都变了。他们的确是回家了，但他们也的确回不去了。
评分They can never go back, even they go back to their old house. But life will keep going anyway.
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