![]() the distaff equivalent of a war memorial". "A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women. Otsuka's haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless". 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. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. ![]() ![]() Julie Otsuka's "The Buddha in the Attic", the follow-up to "When the Emperor Was Divine" was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012. ![]()
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