When the Emperor Was Divine

Title

When the Emperor Was Divine

Subject

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. War stories.

Description

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.

Creator

Otsuka, Julie

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Date

2002

Type

PS3615 .T88 W48

Identifier

2003.500.2911

Collection