When the Emperor Was Divine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780756966386)

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.

Author: Julie Otsuka
ISBN-10: 0756966388
ISBN-13: 9780756966386
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2003
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 68644 / When the Emperor Was Divine