When the emperor was divine: a novel
(Large Print)
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.
Internment camp inmates -- Fiction.
Internment camps -- Fiction.
Japanese American families -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Fiction.
Nazi concentration camps -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- Fiction.
Otsuka, J. (2003). When the emperor was divine: a novel. First large print edition. New York, Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Otsuka, Julie, 1962-. 2003. When the Emperor Was Divine: A Novel. New York, Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Otsuka, Julie, 1962-, When the Emperor Was Divine: A Novel. New York, Random House Large Print, 2003.
MLA Citation (style guide)Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine: A Novel. First large print edition. New York, Random House Large Print, 2003.
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