Requiem
Автор:
Itani FrancesЖанр:
Историческая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-10-31Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
64
“Remarkable … Requiem delicately probes the complex adjustments we make to live with our sorrows…. [A] perfectly modulated novel.”
—The Washington Post
An extraordinary researcher and scholar of detail, Frances Itani—author of the best-selling novel Deafening—excels at weaving breathtaking fiction from true-life events. In her new novel, she traces the lives, loves, and secrets in one Japanese-Canadian family during and after their internment in the 1940s.
In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government removed Bin Okuma’s family from their home on British Columbia’s west coast and forced them into internment camps. They were allowed to take only the possessions they could carry, and Bin, as a young boy, was...
