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Title: Buddha in the Attic, The
Author: OTSUKA JULIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 07/02/2013
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
Winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012
2011 National Book Award Finalist
‘Haunting and heartbreaking . . . manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences.’ Marie Claire
‘Stunning.’ Vogue
‘Harrowing. Otsuka tells a powerful, affecting story that ensure a largely forgotten voice is heard once more.’ Scotsman
‘Poignant, fascinating and tragic.’ Easy Living
‘Tender, nuanced . . . accumulates small sparks of individual experience and shapes them into a great and moving mass, the distaff equivalent of a war memorial.’ Daily Telegraph
‘Powerful, lyrical and almost unbearably sad.’ Psychologies
‘A wonderful, wonderful book . . . so beautifully done.’ David Aaronovitch, Saturday Review, Radio 4
‘A masterpiece.’ San Francisco Chronicle
ISBN: 9780241956489
Pages: 128