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 ...
在看这个小说的过程中,我都不知道有多挣扎。我第一次感受到了“中国人”的身份给我的心理带来的巨大影响。
评分作为移民后裔,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。
评分在看这个小说的过程中,我都不知道有多挣扎。我第一次感受到了“中国人”的身份给我的心理带来的巨大影响。
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
评分热泪盈眶还要一边划生词……
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