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When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka

Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 17096 Users | 2564 Reviews

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Original Title:	When the Emperor Was Divine
ISBN:	0385721811 (ISBN13: 9780385721813)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2003), ALA Alex Award (2003)

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Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination "both physical and emotional" of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view "the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return to their home; and the bitter release of the father after more than four years in captivity" she has created a small tour de force, a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion. Spare, intimate, arrestingly understated, When the Emperor Was Divine is a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times. It heralds the arrival of a singularly gifted new novelist. From the Hardcover edition.

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Title	:	When the Emperor Was Divine
Author	:	Julie Otsuka
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	October 14th 2003 by Anchor Books (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Japan. War. World War II

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Phenomenal. Atypical prose. I was going to give this book 3 stars when on chapter 2...but this book just gets deeper and deeper into the heart of the historical fiction that it ends as a brilliantly done piece of Lit fully deserving a 5 star rating.Read it. Read it.

I had never read a book about Japanese relocation camps, at least not works of fiction, and now I know why. It is not because I would not feel a connection, which what most people have told me, or because this author is not as popular as others on this particular sub-genre, but because I did not want to experience the "move" from the perspective of children, who were not spared this fate, even if their families were not "traitors." The U.S. likes to forget this moment in history, we focus on the

As I was pondering what to write about this slim, impressionistic book about America's internment of Japanese, including citizens, the leading candidate for one of the two major parties in the United States praised that painful and wrong-headed moment in our history. It is astonishing to me that anyone can think it acceptable for the national government to take any action on the basis of race or religion, and Julie Otsuka's book is a primer, not just on the venality but on the ineffectiveness of

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