The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Finalist for the 2011 National Book AwardJulie Otsuka's long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird --The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as 'picture brides' nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war. In language that has the force and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream.
Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel, When the Emperor was Divine, and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She lives in New York City.
From the Hardcover edition.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307700001 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307700003 |
| Title | The Buddha in the Attic |
| Author | Julie Otsuka |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2011-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 129 |
| Prizes | Winner of PEN/Faulkner Award 2012, Winner of Langum Prize for Historical Literature (Historical Fiction) 2011, Commended for National Book Awards (Fiction) 2011, Commended for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013, Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Fiction) 2011, Commended for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2015 |
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