When the Emperor Was Divine

When the Emperor Was Divine

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Beschreibung

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.

On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert.

In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.
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5

Dieses Buch hat mich begeistert. Julie Otsuka behandelt mit einer Geschichte, die sich an die ihrer eigenen Familie anlehnt eine Thematik, der sowohl in der Literatur als auch in der Geschichte viel zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wird: die Internation von US-Bürgern japanischer Abstammung in den USA während dem 2. Weltkrieg (nach Pearl Harbor). Die Charaktere bleiben anonym, wodurch sich zeigt, wie der Krieg uns von einander und uns selbst entfremdet. Die internierten Japaner verlieren ihre Identität und werden zu einer homogenen Masse, zu einem einzigen Feindbild. Die kurzen, abgehackten Sätze unterstreichen, diese Entfremdung, die mit dem Verlust von dem Gefühl für Zeit, Realität und Fiktion einhergeht. Eine ganz grosse Empfehlung. Mehr Einzelheiten in meinem Video. https://youtu.be/tt-S6JU6Ua8

5

Another uncommon but impressive novel I read for university. Very much a novel that feels weird to rate, very much out of my normal comfort-reading-zone and yet, I would definitely recommend it to those interested in the topic. Though only having 140 pages, this is not an easy read - emotion wise - and covers a dark part of WW2 history.

4

When the Emperor was Dvine tells the story of a Japanese family living in California who is sent to a camp in Utah after Pearl Harbour and the entry into war of the United States. The story is told from five different points of view which gives it an interesting turn. I enjoyed this book. I hadn't thought about the topic before and I always like to read about different aspects for history.

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