When the Emperor Was Divine

di Julie Otsuka (Autore)

Elaina Erika Davis (Narratore)

Random House Audio, 2003

Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view—the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the family’s return to their home; and the bitter release of the father after more than four years in captivity—she has created a small tour de force, a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion. Spare, intimate, arrestingly understated, When the Emperor Was Divine is a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times. It heralds the arrival of a singularly gifted new novelist.

• Autore: Julie Otsuka
• Narratore: Elaina Erika Davis
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 03:24:50
• Anno edizione: 2003
• Editore: Random House Audio
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780739307922