When the emperor was divine :

Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

When the emperor was divine : a novel / Julie Otsuka. - First Anchor Books edition. - New York : Anchor Books, 2003, �2002. - 144 pages ; 20 cm

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2002.

Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.

Young Adult.

0385721811 9780385721813 0756966388 9780756966386


Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--California--Fiction.
Japanese American families--Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates--Fiction.
Concentration camps--Fiction.


California--Fiction.


Historical fiction
Domestic fiction.

PS3615.T88 / W48 2003

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