The Buddha in the Attic - Ausgezeichnet: American Academy of Arts and Letters Lit. Award, 2012, Nominiert: National Book Awards, 2011, Ausgezeichnet: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2012
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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2012 |
| Seiten | 144 |
| Format | 13 x 20,3 x 1,1 cm |
| Gewicht | 160 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0307744426 |
| EAN | 9780307744425 |
| Bestell-Nr | 30774442EA |
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides a century ago in this "understated masterpiece ... that unfolds with great emotional power" (San Francisco Chronicle).
In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war.
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