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The Buddha in the attic / Julie Otsuka.
A novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307700001
- ISBN: 0307700003
- Physical Description: 129 p. ; 20 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book." |
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| Subject: | Mail order brides > Fiction Japanese - California - fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - History - 20th Century - Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
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| Prince Rupert Library | Otsu (Text) | 33294001815935 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF (Text) | 35198000407842 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC OTS (Text) | 35136000281296 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Public Library | AF OTS (Text) | 35211000105074 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC OTSU (Text) | 30886000445268 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Summary:
A novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their 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.
