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Rate this book Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.
Rate this book Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.
Feb 7, 2013 · 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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Aug 23, 2011 · The Buddha in the Attic seems destined to endure. —Jane Ciabattari, San Francisco Chronicle “Otsuka’s incantatory style pulls her prose close to poetry.” —Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review “A stunning feat of empathetic imagination and emotional compression, capturing the experience of thousands of women.” —Megan O ...
Mar 20, 2012 · The Buddha in the Attic moves forward in waves of experiences, like movements in a musical composition. . . . By its end, Otsuka’s book has become emblematic of the brides themselves: slender and serene on the outside, tough, weathered and full of secrets on the inside.” —Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka, 2011 Knopf Doubleday 144 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307700001 Summary Julie 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 ...
The Buddha in the Attic. Julie Otsuka. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011 - Fiction - 129 pages. Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. Julie 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 ...
