The long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine tells of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as mail-order brides.
Beschreibung
Shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012, Julie Otsuka's "The Buddha in the Attic", 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 first and second world 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.
Klappentext
Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel When the Emperor Was Divine, and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her second novel, The Buddha in the Attic, was nominated for the 2011 National Book Award. She lives in New York City.
Biografie
Julie Otsuka, geboren 1962 in Kalifornien, lebt heute in New York City. Sie war Guggenheim-Stipendiatin und wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet.
