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Julie Otsuka
A bold and lyrical novel about memory, love, a swimming pool - and the many ways we lose and find each other again
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A Vogue Best Book of 2022 A Bookseller Editor’s Choice Red Magazine’s ‘10 Best New Books Out This Month’
‘Heartbreaking and astoundingly good’ Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
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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…
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER * From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts…
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Explored from varying points of view - the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train journey; the son in the desert encampment; the family’s return…
A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool. –
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Original publication and copyright date: 2011.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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