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Title	:	When the Emperor Was Divine
Author	:	Julie Otsuka
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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

When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka

Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 17096 Users | 2564 Reviews

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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.

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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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This is a small book that packs a punch. At first, I wasn't sure I liked it. It's got a literary bent, which is not my favorite style, but the subject - Japanese internment - was intriguing to me since I knew little about it.This is not a book full of dramatic moments or witty dialogue. It's *very* subtle. But then I realized that its subtly is *exactly* the point. If there were big moments that horrified or appalled the reader, then the reader would stay at an arm's length - there's something

After reading "The Buddha in the Attic" by Julie Otsuka, I was interested in reading this book. As in the first book, "When the Emperor Was Divine" is prose that reads like poetry. It is so delicately expressed that it feels like a pen and ink brush painting. Nevertheless, the book deals with a subject rarely discussed - the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. While "The Buddha in the Attic" deals with the whole Japanese immigrant experience leading up to the internment, "When

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