The Buddha in the Attic |
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| Author:
| Otsuka, Julie |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4104-4622-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | Thorndike Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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A New York Times Bestseller -- In a tour de force of economy and precision, Julie Otsuka tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. Eight incantatory sections trace the brides' extraordinary lives from their arduous journey and tremulous first nights as new wives, to their backbreaking work and struggles in a new culture, to raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage, to the arrival of war.
A New York Times Bestseller -- In a tour de force of economy and precision, Julie Otsuka tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. Eight incantatory sections trace the brides' extraordinary lives from their arduous journey and tremulous first nights as new wives, to their backbreaking work and struggles in a new culture, to raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage, to the arrival of war.