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Julie Otsuka - Buddha in the Attic, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Buddha in the Attic

Av Julie Otsuka

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'An understated masterpiece' San Francisco Chronicle'Her wisdom is staggeringly beautiful, implicating each of us' Irish TimesAfter 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.'A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women' Daily TelegraphWINNER OF THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 2012SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2011SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2011
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-02-07
  • Mått: 130 x 195 x 10 mm
  • Vikt: 136 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 144
  • Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780241956489
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Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She pursued a career as a painter for several years before turning to fiction writing at age 30. She is the author of When the Emperor Was Divine, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Buddha in the Attic, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2012, and The Swimmers. She is a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, France's Prix Femina Étranger, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She lives in New York City.

Recensioner i media

Sweeping, symphonic, empathic . . . subtle, infinitely skilful . . . an exhilarating, compulsive read. Otsuka's haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless

Betyg & recensioner

13 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.3/5

  1. 4/5 Ulla

    Boken ger en inblick i en tid i den Amerikanska historien då kvinnor kom från Japan för att gifta sig med Amerikanska män.

  2. 5/5 Lena

    Kan inte påminna mig ha läst något som berättats på detta sätt. Små fragment bildar en stor och varierad mosaik. Poetiskt och konkret i en lyckosam blandning.

  3. 4/5 Monica B
  4. 5/5 Marie
  5. 4/5 Alicia W

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