When the Emperor Was Divine

出版者:Anchor

作者:Julie Otsuka

页数:160

出版时间:2003-10-14

价格:USD 12.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780385721813

具体描述

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

不懂为啥这本作为summer reading

不懂为啥这本作为summer reading

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。

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。

不懂为啥这本作为summer reading