Books by Julie Otsuka and Complete Book Reviews

WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE
WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE
Julie Otsuka, Author . Knopf $18 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-41429-9
This heartbreaking, bracingly unsentimental debut describes in poetic detail the travails of a Japanese family living in an internment camp during World War II, raising the specter of wartime injustice in bone-chilling fashion. After a woman whose...
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The Buddha in the Attic
The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka. Knopf, $22 (144p) ISBN 978-0-307-70000-1
In the early 1900s, numerous Japanese mail order brides came to America seeking better lives. Otsuka's (When the Emperor was Divine) latest novel paints a delicate, heartbreaking portrait of these women. Using a collective first-person narrator ("On
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Swimmers
Swimmers
Julie Otsuka. Knopf, $23 (176p) ISBN 978-0-5933-2133-1
Otsuka (The Buddha in the Attic) delivers a quick and tender story of a group of swimmers who cope with the disruption of their routines in various ways. The regulars at a pool range in age, ability, and swimming habits, and are connected by an...
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