Obasan (Paperback)
| Author: Joy Kogawa |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-10: 0385468865
ISBN-13: 9780385468862
Sku: 30055283
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8H x 5.25L x 0.75T
Pages:
320
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| The narrator learns about the experiences of her grandmother, Obasan, who was among those Japanese Canadians relocated to internment camps at the beginning of World War II *Author: Kogawa, Joy *Publication Date: 1994/01/01 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.75 *Width: 5.25 *Height: 8.00 |
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Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. |
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"A poignant, painful story, recollected with vivid, sparely evocative details." New York Times
"'Obasan' is a very moving vision of an affront to democratic principles...a tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility."
"A poignant, painful story, recollected with vivid, sparely evocative details." New York Times
"'Obasan' is a very moving vision of an affront to democratic principles...a tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility."
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