The Buddha in the attic
Otsuka, Julie , 1962-
The Buddha in the attic / Julie Otsuka - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2011. - 129 p. ; 20 cm.
"This is a Borzoi book."
In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. It traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.
9780307700001
2011013568
Mail order brides----Fiction
Japanese----California----Fiction
San Francisco (CA)----Fiction
PS3615.T88 / B83 2011
FIC OTS
The Buddha in the attic / Julie Otsuka - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2011. - 129 p. ; 20 cm.
"This is a Borzoi book."
In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. It traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.
9780307700001
2011013568
Mail order brides----Fiction
Japanese----California----Fiction
San Francisco (CA)----Fiction
PS3615.T88 / B83 2011
FIC OTS
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