The Buddha in the Attic
Author: Otsuka, Julie
ISBN: 9780241956489
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine tells of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as mail-order brides.
Between the wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land.
ISBN: 9780241956489
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine tells of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as mail-order brides.
Between the wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land.
