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The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

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After the First World War, a group of young women is brought by boat from Japan to San Francisco. They are picture brides, promised the American Dream, clutching photographs of the husbands they have yet to meet, imagining uncertain futures on unknown shores. Struggling to master a new language and culture, they experience tremulous first nights as new wives, backbreaking work in the fields and in the homes of white women, and, later, the raising of children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history. And then war arrives once more. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land. The Buddha in the Attic won the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2012
ISBN-13
9780141972251
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Immigration and displacementJapanese-American history and internmentIdentity and cultural assimilation

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