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The Buddha in the Attic

by Julie Otsuka
The Buddha in the Attic - Thryft
The Buddha in the Attic - Thryft

Japanese brides navigate a new America

The Buddha in the Attic is a captivating read for those interested in immigrant experiences, particularly Japanese picture brides who settled in America. It depicts the heartbreaking reality of these women who were strangers lost in a foreign land and takes the reader through the decades, culminating in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Julie Otsuka's haunting, empathetic prose is sure to leave readers deeply moved.

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2012)
  • Prix Femina for Étranger (2012)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2011)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2011)
  • David J. Langum Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction (2011)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Buddha in the Attic

by Julie Otsuka
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ISBN: 9780241956489
Authors: Julie Otsuka
Publisher: Penguin
Date of Publication: 2013-02-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.69
(rated by 57093 readers)

Description

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.
 

Japanese brides navigate a new America

The Buddha in the Attic is a captivating read for those interested in immigrant experiences, particularly Japanese picture brides who settled in America. It depicts the heartbreaking reality of these women who were strangers lost in a foreign land and takes the reader through the decades, culminating in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Julie Otsuka's haunting, empathetic prose is sure to leave readers deeply moved.

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2012)
  • Prix Femina for Étranger (2012)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2011)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2011)
  • David J. Langum Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction (2011)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.